Arnold Philip Hano was an American editor, novelist, biographer and journalist, best known for his non-fiction work A Day in the Bleachers, a critically acclaimed eyewitness account of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, centered on its pivotal play, Willie Mays' famous catch and throw.
13 Facts About Arnold Hano
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The author of several sports biographies, and frequent contributor to such publications as The New York Times, Sport, Sports Illustrated, and TV Guide, Hano was, in 1963, both a Hillman Prize winner and NSSA's Magazine Sportswriter of the Year.
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Arnold Hano was Baseball Reliquary's 2012 Hilda Award recipient and a 2016 inductee into its Shrine of the Eternals.
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Arnold Hano's father, Alfred Barnard Hano, worked as a lawyer and was employed as a salesman during the Great Depression; his mother, Clara, was a housewife.
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Arnold Hano spent his pre-school years in northern Manhattan's Washington Heights, in close proximity to both the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium.
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Arnold Hano attended DeWitt Clinton High School, graduating in 1937, and started that fall at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus.
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That summer, Arnold Hano was employed as a copy boy by the New York Daily News: Accompanying the News photographer to sporting events, he provided captions for those shots chosen to be published.
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Arnold Hano served in an artillery battalion of the Seventh Infantry Division, participating in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and later landing in the first wave on Kwajalein Atoll.
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Arnold Hano authored several sports biographies in the 1960s and '70s, including those of Mays, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Muhammad Ali.
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Arnold Hano received the 1963 Sidney Hillman Memorial Award for magazine journalism for "Burned Out Americans", a muckraking study of conditions facing migratory farm workers in California's Central Valley.
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Arnold Hano taught writing at the University of Southern California, Pitzer College, and the University of California, Irvine.
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Arnold Hano was instrumental in writing and promoting a 1971 voter initiative establishing a 36-foot height limit on new buildings; with close to 62 percent of the city's registered voters participating, the measure was approved by a better than 3-to-1 margin.
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Arnold Hano died on October 24,2021, at his home in Laguna Beach, California.