David Maraniss ( / ˈ m ær ə n ɪ s / MARR -ə-niss ; born August 6, 1949) is an American award-winning journalist and author, currently serving as an associate editor for The Washington Post .
6-461: Baseball Almanac is an interactive baseball encyclopedia with over 500,000 pages of baseball facts, research, awards, records, feats, lists, notable quotations, baseball movie ratings, and statistics. Its goal is to preserve the history of baseball. It serves, in turn, as a source for a number of books and publications about baseball, and/or is mentioned by them as a reference, such as Baseball Digest , Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to
12-472: Is a mother lode of facts, figures, anecdotes, quotations and essays focused on the national pastime.... It has been an indispensable research tool for me." David Maraniss Maraniss is the author of numerous books, ranging from politics to sports. He has written books on Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi , Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente , the 1960 Summer Olympics , and on U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama . Maraniss
18-523: The Trenton Times . For The Washington Post , he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993, for his "revealing articles on the life and political records" of Bill Clinton , then a presidential candidate. He was also assigned the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate, Barack Obama . This article about a United States journalist born in
24-843: The Casual Fan , described it as having "a rich supply of contemporary and historic information". Film critic Richard Roeper described it in Sox and the City: A Fan's Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz as "one of the beauteous wonders of the Internet". Harvey Frommer, Dartmouth College Professor and sports author, said of Baseball Almanac : "Definitive, vast in its reach and scope, Baseball Almanac
30-863: The Science of Baseball Statistics , and Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records . Dan Zachofsky described it in Collecting Baseball Memorabilia: A Handbook as having the most current information regarding members of the Hall of Fame. David Maraniss , author of Clemente, the Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero , described it as "an absolutely reliable and first-rate bountiful source, that supplied accurate schedules and box scores". Glenn Guzo, in The New Ballgame: Baseball Statistics for
36-746: Was born in Detroit, Michigan to Elliot and Mary Maraniss. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison . Maraniss and his wife Linda, got married in 1969 and had two children; they live in Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin . His son, Andrew Maraniss is also an author and was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. Maraniss began his career as reporter at the Madison Capital Times , and later worked at
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