Tom Stanton (born December 17, 1960 in

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) is the author of several nonfiction books, including two memoirs. In 1983, Stanton, a journalist, co-founded ''The Voice Newspapers'' in suburban Detroit and served as editor for sixteen years before embarking on a literary career in 1999. A former Knight-Wallace Fellow at the

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, Stanton teaches

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at the

University of Detroit Mercy The University of Detroit Mercy is a private Roman Catholic university in Detroit, Michigan. It is sponsored by both the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and the Sisters of Mercy. The university was founded in 1877 and is the largest Catholic univers ...

. In 2008, Stanton won the Michigan Author Award.

Books

Stanton's first baseball book was ''

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'', a memoir of the last season of Detroit Tigers baseball at historic Tiger Stadium (during which, Stanton attended all Tigers home games), as well as his familial relationships and the way baseball bonded fathers and sons together. The book was well-received, winning ''Spitball Magazine's''

CASEY Award The Casey Award has been given to the best baseball book of the year since 1983. The award was begun by Mike Shannon and W.J. Harrison, editors and co-founders of ''Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine''. Casey Award recipients *1983 – Er ...

and '' Elysian Field Quarterly's'' Dave Moore Award, which are annually awarded for the year's best baseball book. Stanton's second baseball memoir, '' The Road to Cooperstown'', is about a road trip the author took with his older brother and father to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. His third baseball book was '' Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America'', a history of Hank Aaron's 1973-1974 pursuit of Major League Baseball's career home runs record. The book again met critical success, and was named a ''

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'' "Editor's Selection of the Month." He also wrote '' Ty and The Babe'', about the relationship between baseball icons

Ty Cobb Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the ...

and

Babe Ruth George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Su ...

, longtime rivals who became friends in retirement. A finalist for '' Publishers Weekly’s''

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(Sports Division) and the Great Lakes Booksellers Association’s Nonfiction Book of the Year. In 2008, Stanton was given the Michigan Author Award, awarded annually by the Michigan Library Association and Center for the Book to "a Michigan writer for his or her contributions to literature based on an outstanding published body of work."
Terror in the City of Champions
Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit'' is Stanton's most recent work. The 2016 nonfiction book tells the overlapping stories of the Black Legion terrorist group and the mid-1930s athletics success of Joe Louis and the Detroit Tigers, Lions and Red Wings. It received starred reviews from '' Kirkus Reviews'' and ''

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''.

Honors and awards

* Michigan Notable Book Award, 2017. * INDIES Award, Book of the Year: True Crime, Foreword Magazine, 2016. * Michigan Author Award, 2008. *

finalist for ''Ty and The Babe'', 2007. *

for ''The Final Season'', 2001. * Dave Moore Award for ''The Final Season'', 2001. *

Knight-Wallace Fellowship The Knight-Wallace Fellowship (previously known as the NEH Journalism Fellowship and the Michigan Journalism Fellowship) is an award given to accomplished journalists at the University of Michigan. Knight-Wallace Fellowships are awarded to reporte ...

, 1995-96.

Bibliography

* '' Terror in the City of Champions'' (2016), * ''The Detroit Tigers'' by Fred Lieb (wrote new foreword, 2008), * ''Ty and The Babe'' (2007), * ''The Detroit Tigers reader'' (editor, 2006), * ''Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America'' (2004), * ''The Road to Cooperstown'' (2003), * ''

'' (2001), * ''Rocket Man: The Encyclopedia of Elton John'' (coauthored with Claude Bernardin, 1995),

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Notes and references

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