Crazy stuff by Dan Coughlin

Dan Coughlin, who has covered sports in Northeast Ohio newspapers and on television for nearly a half-century, has his first book out, "Crazy, With the Papers to Prove It."

The former Plain Dealer columnist (1964–1982) and WJW-TV sports anchor writes about egendary Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes, quirky Cleveland Indians shooting star/flameout Super Joe Charboneau, Olympic champion Stella Walsh (a hermaphrodite who competed in women's events), boxer Muhammad Ali and former Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell and others in the 40-chapter book.

The 288-page "Crazy, with the Papers to Prove It" is published by Cleveland's Gray and Company and sells for $14.95.

Richard Osborne of the Lorain Morning Journal has a good column about a "crazy" that didn't make the book, when the Cleveland Press Club bought a trotter who was no Dan Patch, and not just because DP was a pacer, at
http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2010/11/14/opinion/mj3668858.txt;

The Canton Repository's Gary Brown has an excellent interview of Dan and the book at
http://www.cantonrep.com/carousel/x1696244554/Monday-After-Dan-Coughlins-book-tells-of-wackos-and-a-writer

Click on the headline to read a Q. & A. with Dan on the Cleveland Leader web site.