Jim Caple is a former columnist and senior writer for ESPN.com. He has worked previously with the ''

Seattle Post-Intelligencer The ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' (popularly known as the ''Seattle P-I'', the ''Post-Intelligencer'', or simply the ''P-I'') is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, United States. Th ...

'' and the '' St. Paul Pioneer Press''. Caple attended R.A. Long High School in

Longview, Washington Longview is a city in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States. It is the principal city of the Longview, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Cowlitz County. Longview's population was 37,818 at the time of the 2 ...

. He graduated from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seat ...

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, where he reported for and later became an editor of the school newspaper, " The Daily". Caple has written a book ''The Devil Wears Pinstripes'' () which, according to Amazon.com, "takes on the rabid fans of baseball's twenty-six-time World Champions, and offers a decidedly different slant on the

New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one o ...

—the losers of thirteen World Series."

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Caple's columns on ESPN.com
Living people The Daily of the University of Washington alumni American sportswriters People from Longview, Washington Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-sportswriter-stub