Terry Pluto
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Terry Pluto is an award-winning Akron, Ohio sportswriter who primarily writes columns for the Akron Beacon Journal about Cleveland sports and religion. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize twice, and has been named Ohio Sportswriter of the Year eight times. Pluto is also the author of over 20 books and a graduate of Benedictine High School in Cleveland Ohio.
On Tuesday, November 28th 2006, Pluto wrote a eulogy for noted sportscaster Casey Coleman in the Akron-Beacon Journal. In his article, Pluto claimed to have an addiction to pornography that he overcame through a religious re-awakening. He wrote that he would surf the Internet for pornography but did not specify if he had paid subscriptions or what type of porn he enjoyed viewing. He was subsequently profiled on the website [1]deadspin.com.
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[edit] Books
[edit] Sports
- The Greatest Summer: The Remarkable Story of Jim Bouton's Comeback to MLB, (1979)
- Earl of Baltimore, (1982) ISBN 0-8329-0125-3
- A Baseball Winter: The Off-Season Life of the Summer Game, (Jeffrey Neuman, Editor, 1986) ISBN 0-02-597760-1
- Forty-Eight Minutes: A Night in the Life of the NBA, (Co-Written with Bob Ryan, 1989) ISBN 0-02-597770-9
- Bull Session: An Up-Close Look at Michael Jordan and Courtside Stories About the Chicago Bulls, (Co-Written with Johnny 'Red' Kerr, 1989) ISBN 0-929387-01-5
- Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association, (1990) ISBN 0-671-74921-8
- Tall Tales: Glory Years of the NBA..., (1992) ISBN 0-8032-8766-6
- The Curse of Rocky Colavito: A Loving Look at a Thirty-Year Slump, (reprint ed., 1995) ISBN 0-684-80415-8
- Burying the Curse: How the Indians Became the Best Team in Baseball, (1995) ISBN 0-9649902-3-7
- Falling From Grace, (1995) ISBN 0-684-80766-1
- When All the World Was Browns Town, (1997) ISBN 0-684-82246-6
- Our Tribe : A Baseball Memoir, (1999) ISBN 0-684-84505-9
- Unguarded : My Forty Years Surviving in the NBA, (Co-Written with Lenny Wilkens, 2001) ISBN 0-684-87374-5
- The View from Pluto: Collected Sportswriting About Northeast Ohio, (2002) ISBN 1-886228-62-0
- Weaver on Strategy: Classic Work on Art of Managing a Baseball Team, (Co-Written with Earl Weaver, 2002) ISBN 1-57488-424-7
- False Start: How The New Browns Were Set Up To Fail, (2004) ISBN 1-886228-88-4
- Dealing: The Cleveland Indians' New Ballgame: Inside the Front Office and the Process of Rebuilding a Contender 2006) ISBN 1-59851-022-3
[edit] Religion
- Everyday Faith, (2004) ISBN 1-886228-81-7
- Faith And You: Making Faith Work in Everyday Life, (2005) ISBN 1-59851-015-0
- Champions for Life: The Healing Power of a Father's Blessing, (Co-written with Bill Glass, 2005) ISBN 0-7573-0250-5
[edit] Edited by Terry Pluto
- Tark: College Basketball's Winningest Coach, by Jerry Tarkanian, (1988) ISBN 0-07-062802-5
- Sixty-One: The Team, the Record, the Men, by Tony Kubek, (reprint ed., 1989) ISBN 0-671-67539-7
