Terry Pluto (born June 12, 1955) is an American

sportswriter Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on matters pertaining to sporting topics and competitions. Sports journalism started in the early 1800s when it was targeted to the social elite and transitioned into an integral part of the n ...

, newspaper columnist, and author who primarily writes columns for ''

The Plain Dealer ''The Plain Dealer'' is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. In fall 2019, it ranked 23rd in U.S. newspaper circulation, a significant drop since March 2013, when its circulation ranked 17th daily and 15th on Sunday. As of Ma ...

'', and formerly for the '' Akron Beacon Journal'' about Cleveland, Ohio sports and

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

Pluto is a graduate of Benedictine High School in Cleveland, and received a degree in secondary education from Cleveland State University, with a major in Social Studies and a minor in English. On August 14, 2007, Pluto announced he was leaving the ''Beacon Journal'' to return to ''The Plain Dealer''. He cited the larger circulation and ability to write for his hometown paper as reasons for leaving. Pluto began at ''The Plain Dealer'' on September 2, 2007. Since joining ''The Plain Dealer'', Pluto's stories and columns have contributed to the paper becoming a three-time Ohio

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Award winner for Best Daily Sports Section (2007, 2010, 2011 - Division V)

Books

Sports

*''The Greatest Summer: The Remarkable Story of Jim Bouton's Comeback to MLB'', (

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...

) *''Earl of Baltimore'', ( 1982) *''A Baseball Winter: The Off-Season Life of the Summer Game'', (Jeffrey Neuman, Editor, 1986) *''Forty-Eight Minutes: A Night in the Life of the NBA'', (Co-Written with

Bob Ryan Robert P. Ryan (born February 21, 1946) is an American sportswriter, formerly with ''The Boston Globe'', and author. He has been described as "the quintessential American sportswriter" and a basketball guru, and is well known for his coverage of ...

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

) *''Bull Session: An Up-Close Look at Michael Jordan and Courtside Stories About the Chicago Bulls'', (Co-Written with Johnny 'Red' Kerr,

) *'' Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association'', (

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

) *''Tall Tales: Glory Years of the NBA...'', ( 1992) *''The Curse of Rocky Colavito: A Loving Look at a Thirty-Year Slump'', (reprint ed.,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

) *''Burying the Curse: How the Indians Became the Best Team in Baseball'', (

) *''Falling From Grace'', (

) *''Browns Town 1964: The Cleveland Browns and the 1964 Championship''(

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

) *''When All the World Was Browns Town'', (

) *''Our Tribe : A Baseball Memoir'', ( 1999) *''Unguarded : My Forty Years Surviving in the NBA'', (Co-Written with

Lenny Wilkens Leonard Randolph Wilkens (born October 28, 1937) is an American former basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as ...

, 2001) *''The View from Pluto: Collected Sportswriting About Northeast Ohio'', ( 2002) *''Weaver on Strategy: Classic Work on Art of Managing a Baseball Team'', (Co-Written with

Earl Weaver Earl Sidney Weaver (August 14, 1930 – January 19, 2013) was an American professional baseball manager, author, and television broadcaster. After playing in minor league baseball, he retired without playing in Major League Baseball (MLB). He be ...

, 2002) *''False Start: How The New Browns Were Set Up To Fail'', ( 2004) *''Dealing: The Cleveland Indians' New Ballgame: Inside the Front Office and the Process of Rebuilding a Contender'' 2006) *''The Franchise: Lebron James and the Remaking of the Cleveland Cavaliers'', (Co-Written with Brian Windhorst, 2007) *''LeBron James: The Making of an MVP'', (Co-Written with Brian Windhorst, 2009) *''Things I've Learned From Watching The Browns'', 2010 *''Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball'', (Co-Written with

Joe Tait Joseph Tait (May 15, 1937 – March 10, 2021) was an American sports broadcaster who was the play-by-play announcer on radio for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and both TV and radio for the Cleveland India ...

), 2011 *''Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994–1997'', (Co-written with Tom Hamilton),

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

Religion

*''Everyday Faith'', ( 2004) *''Faith And You: Making Faith Work in Everyday Life'', ( 2005) *''Champions for Life: The Healing Power of a Father's Blessing'', (Co-written with Bill Glass, 2005) *''Faith And You Volume II: More Essays on Faith in Everyday Life'', (

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gat ...

)

Edited by Terry Pluto

*''Tark: College Basketball's Winningest Coach'', by

Jerry Tarkanian Jerry Tarkanian (August 8, 1930 – February 11, 2015) was an American basketball coach. He coached college basketball for 31 seasons over five decades at three schools. He spent the majority of his career coaching with the UNLV Runnin' Rebe ...

, (

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...

) *''Sixty-One: The Team, the Record, the Men'', by

Tony Kubek Anthony Christopher Kubek (born October 12, 1935) is an American former professional baseball player and television broadcaster. During his nine-year playing career with the New York Yankees, Kubek played in six World Series in the late 1950s an ...

, (reprint ed.,

)

Awards

*Eight-time NSSA Ohio Sportswriter of the Year (1989, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007) *2005 inductee - Cleveland Press Club Journalism Hall of Fame *2008

Chuck Heaton Charles Heaton Jr. (October 22, 1917 – February 14, 2008) was an American sports news columnist, journalist, commentator, and reporter. He worked for 50 years as a sportswriter for '' The Cleveland Plain Dealer'' in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the ...

Award winner (inaugural award recipient) *2010 Ohio

Best Sports Writerhttp://www.ap.org/states/ohio/documents/DVcomment2010.pdf

References

External links

Terry Pluto
at Cleveland.com
www.terrypluto.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pluto, Terry Sportswriters from Ohio Writers from Akron, Ohio Sports in Akron, Ohio Sports in Cleveland Cleveland State University alumni 1955 births Living people Writers from Cleveland Christianity in Cleveland Journalists from Ohio