George Vecsey is a non-fiction author and sports columnist for “The New York Times.” He is most well known for his work in two distinctly different fields: he has written several books on baseball history and co-written several autobiographies with well known non-sports figures.
Although he has written books on a wide variety of sports including tennis, football, basketball, and boxing, Vecsey considers baseball his favorite sport, and has written more books about baseball than any other sport. Vecsey’s baseball books cover several different periods of the game. In “The Rivals” he covers the entire history of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry from the first half of the century up until recent years. He has also written books exclusively about modern baseball history such as “McGwire and Sosa,” about the home run record chase by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, which took place in 1998, and “Subway 2000” about the New York Mets and New York Yankees Subway series which took place in 2000.
Vecsey has also helped several celebrities and high profile people such as Barbara Mandrell, Loretta Lynn, and Harry Wu write their autobiographies. Vecsey also covered religion for three years for the “Times,” and authored a chapter of the literary hoax “Naked Came the Stranger.” Vecsey is the older brother of “New York Post” sports columnist Peter Vecsey and the father of former “Baltimore Sun” sports columnist Laura Vecsey.
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