1. Lawrence Allen Ruttman was born on February 8,1931 and is an American attorney, author, and historian.
14 Facts About Larry Ruttman
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Larry Ruttman is best known for his five books: Voices of Brookline; American Jews and America's Game; his baseball memoir, My Eighty-Two Year Love Affair with Fenway Park: From Teddy Ballgame to Mookie Betts; his memoir, Larry Ruttman: A Life Lived Backwards: An Existential Triad of Friendship, Maturation, and Inquisitiveness; and Intimate Conversations: Face to Face With Matchless Musicians, scheduled for publication on October 1,2024.
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Larry Ruttman graduated from Brookline High School, received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and earned a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 1958.
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Larry Ruttman was an Assistant Attorney General in the civil rights section of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General from 1960 to 1962.
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Larry Ruttman is a fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the charitable partner of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and served on the Board of Governors of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys in the 1980s.
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Larry Ruttman was an elected Brookline Town Meeting member from 1958 to 1968, an elected Democratic Town Committee member from 1960 to 1976, and an appointed member of the Brookline Cable Trust from 1984 to 1986.
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In 2019, Larry Ruttman led an effort at the Brookline Town Meeting to rename the former Edward Devotion School in honor of Ethel Weiss, the owner of a nearby toy and card shop, who welcomed neighborhood children into her store for more than 76 years.
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On June 14,2013, Larry Ruttman was elected as a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, which was founded in 1791.
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In that capacity, Larry Ruttman interviewed the American microtonalist composer Ezra Sims as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur-winning composer and pianist Ran Blake.
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Larry Ruttman drew on his lifelong love of baseball for his next book, American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball, published in 2013 by the University of Nebraska Press.
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Larry Ruttman began the book in Israel in 2007 while interviewing managers of the new Israel Baseball League, including former Major League players Ken Holtzman, Ron Blomberg, Art Shamsky, and Steve Hertz, as well as former Yankees public relations director and author Marty Appel.
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Larry Ruttman traveled across the US to interview subjects for the book over the next four years.
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In May 2018, Larry Ruttman published a memoir of his years as a fan of the Boston Red Sox, My Eighty-Two Year Love Affair with Fenway Park: From Teddy Ballgame to Mookie Betts.
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In 2015, Larry Ruttman donated interview recordings, interview transcripts, and illustrations from American Jews and America's Game to seven libraries and archives, including the Library of Congress and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.