“Double Play on Hudson: An Evening with Two Sports Journalists” will be the topic of the third annual literary evening sponsored by The Masters School Parent Association and the Dobbs Ferry Public Library. The program is scheduled for Wednesday, November 16, at 7:00 p.m. at Estherwood Mansion. It will feature Masters School parents Wayne Coffey P’13, ’17 and Rob Fleder P’13, well-known sports journalists who are at work on books on baseball—one on the Mets, the other on the Yankees--that will be published in spring 2012.
Wayne Coffey is an award-winning journalist for the New York Daily News and the author of more than 30 books, including The Boys of Winter (Crown), a New York Times best-selling chronicle of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. A three-time Pulitzer nominee, he has written about sports from most corners of the globe, and has been named one of the nation’s top sports feature writers by the Associated Press three times in the last five years. His book, When Your Parent Drinks Too Much (Facts On File), written under the pseudonym Eric Ryerson, was named a most outstanding young-adult book of the year by the New York Public Library and the American Library Association.
Rob Fleder was executive editor of Sports Illustrated and the editor of SI Books during his 20 years at Time Inc. He was also an editor at Esquire, Playboy, and The National Sport Daily. He edited several New York Times bestsellers including SI 50: The Anniversary Book, The SI Football Book, The SI Baseball Book, and Hate Mail from Cheerleaders. He was also the editor of Paper Trails, a 2006 collection of columns and articles by the novelist Pete Dexter, to be published in paperback in 2012. His latest effort, DAMN YANKEES: 24 Major-League Writers on the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team, will be published by Ecco/Harper Collins next spring.
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The Masters School (www.mastersny.org) is a coed day and boarding school that engages fifth-twelfth grade students in a rigorous college preparatory curriculum. Located on a majestic 96-acre suburban campus, the 134-year-old school is just 35 minutes from New York City.
