Pete Axthelm
Author
1943 – 1991
Who was Pete Axthelm?
Pete Axthelm worked as a sportswriter and columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, Sports Illustrated and Newsweek. During the 1980s, his knowledge of sports and journalistic skill aided him in becoming a sports commentator for The NFL on NBC and NFL Primetime and horse racing on ESPN. Axthelm died of liver failure on February 2, 1991 at the age of 47.
A graduate of Yale University, he wrote The Modern Confessional Novel while a student there. In 1970, The City Game, Basketball in New York was published. The book explored one season of the New York Knicks along with players who were legends in neighborhoods of New York but who never played professionally. He is perhaps best remembered for writing The Kid, in 1978, a biography of then eighteen-year-old Triple Crown winning jockey, Steve Cauthen.
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- Born
- Aug 27, 1943
New York City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Yale University
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Feb 2, 1991
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on July 23, 2013
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