Steve Jacobson was A sportswriter at Newsday for over four decades, He became a featured columnist in 1979. He joined the Newsday sports staff in 1960 and spent a large part of his first 19 years there covering the Mets and Yankees. In 1988, his body of work as a columnist earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination in commentary. In 2001, he began a Sunday column entitled “The Last Word,” His final column appeared Mar. 30, 2003. He has written 3 books in The Pitching Staff, The Best Team Money Can Buy (1978), and Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball-And America he joins Mark And AJ to talk about the passing of Frank Robinson and Don Newcombe.
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