About Marty Appel
Martin E. Appel is an American public relations and sports management executive, television executive producer, baseball historian and author. While serving as VP for Public Relations for New York City television station WPIX, Appel won an Emmy Award as the executive producer of Yankee telecasts, a position he held for 11 years until 1992. Appel's Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss, published in 2012, was the first narrative history of the team since Frank Graham's 1943 book, The New York Yankees: An Informal History.
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