{{short description|American journalist}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | name = Tom Stanton | image = Tom Stanton.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = December 17, 1960 | birth_place = Warren, Michigan | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Associate Professor, University of Detroit Mercy | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Knight-Wallace Fellow Michigan Author of the Year, 2008 | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|http://tomstanton.com/}} | portaldisp = }} '''Tom Stanton''' (born December 17, 1960, in Warren, Michigan) is the author of several nonfiction books, including two memoirs. In 1983, Stanton, a journalist, co-founded ''The Voice Newspapers'' in suburban Detroit and served as editor for sixteen years before embarking on a literary career in 1999.<ref>University of Detroit Mercy Communication Studies. [http://liberalarts.udmercy.edu/commstudies/faculty.php "Communication Studies Faculty Bios."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723125118/http://liberalarts.udmercy.edu/commstudies/faculty.php |date=2008-07-23 }}</ref> A former Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan,<ref>Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan. [http://www.mjfellows.org/fellows/1996.html "Past Fellows: 1995-1996"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109224409/http://www.mjfellows.org/fellows/1996.html |date=2013-01-09 }}. Retrieved on 2008-08-02.</ref> Stanton teaches journalism at the University of Detroit Mercy.<ref>University of Detroit Mercy Campus Connection [http://www.udmercy.edu/campus_connection "UDM journalism to get a boost from new faculty member"] 2008-07-15. Retrieved on 2008-08-02.</ref> In 2008, Stanton won the Michigan Author Award.<ref>Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries. [http://michigan.gov/som/0,1607,7-192-29938_34758-196815--,00.html "Renowned Baseball Writer Tom Stanton Wins 2008 Michigan Author Award."] 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2008-10-25.</ref>

== Books == Stanton's first baseball book was ''The Final Season'', a memoir of the last season of Detroit Tigers baseball at historic Tiger Stadium (during which, Stanton attended all Tigers home games), as well as his familial relationships and the way baseball bonded fathers and sons together. The book was well-received, winning ''Spitball Magazine's'' CASEY Award<ref>''Spitball:The Literary Baseball Magazine''. [http://www.spitballmag.com/Casey-Award PREVIOUS CASEY AWARD WINNERS].</ref> and ''Elysian Fields Quarterly's'' Dave Moore Award.<ref>[http://www.efqreview.com/ 2001 Dave Moore Award Winner]. Retrieved 2008-08-02.</ref> Stanton's second baseball memoir, ''The Road to Cooperstown'', is about a road trip the author took with his older brother and father to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

His third baseball book was ''Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America'', a history of Hank Aaron's 1973-1974 pursuit of Major League Baseball's career home runs record. The book again met critical success, and was named a ''Reader's Digest'' "Editor's Selection of the Month."<ref>Wisconsin Timber Rattlers News. [https://www.milb.com/news/gcs-258264 "Award-Winning Author Tom Stanton to Visit Fox Cities Stadium"], 2007-06-13. Retrieved 2008-08-02.</ref>

He also wrote ''Ty and The Babe'', about the relationship between baseball icons Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, longtime rivals who became friends in retirement. A finalist for ''Publishers Weekly’s'' Quill Awards (Sports Division) and the Great Lakes Booksellers Association’s Nonfiction Book of the Year.<ref>''Publishers Weekly's The Beat''. [https://archive.today/20120722175333/http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/06/02/2007-quills-nominees 2007 Quills Nominees]</ref> In 2008, Stanton was given the Michigan Author Award, awarded annually by the Michigan Library Association and Center for the Book to "a Michigan writer for his or her contributions to literature based on an outstanding published body of work."<ref>[http://michigan.gov/som/0,1607,7-192-29938_34758-196815--,00.html "Renowned Baseball Writer Tom Stanton Wins 2008 Michigan Author Award."]</ref>

''[https://www.amazon.com/Terror-City-Champions-Baseball-Depression-era/dp/1493015702/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1502734122&amp;sr=1-1 Terror in the City of Champions]: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit'' is Stanton's most recent work.<ref>[http://www.theoaklandpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/20160525/author-tells-of-black-legion-detroit-vigilante-group-lost-in-mist-of-history ''Oakland Press'']</ref> The 2016 nonfiction book tells the overlapping stories of the Black Legion terrorist group and the mid-1930s athletics success of Joe Louis and the Detroit Tigers, Lions and Red Wings. It received starred reviews from ''Kirkus Reviews'' <ref>''Kirkus Reviews''. [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tom-stanton/terror-in-the-city-of-champions]/</ref> and ''Booklist''.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.booklistonline.com/Terror-in-the-City-of-Champions-Murder-Baseball-and-the-Secret-Society-That-Shocked-Depression-Era-Detroit-Tom-Stanton/pid=8061586 | title=Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit, by Tom Stanton &#124; Booklist Online }}</ref>

== Honors and awards == *Michigan Notable Book Award, 2017. *INDIES Award, Book of the Year: True Crime, Foreword Magazine, 2016. *Michigan Author Award, 2008. *Quill Awards finalist for ''Ty and The Babe'', 2007. *CASEY Award for ''The Final Season'', 2001. *Dave Moore Award for ''The Final Season'', 2001. *Knight-Wallace Fellowship, 1995-96.

==Bibliography== * ''Terror in the City of Champions'' (2016), {{ISBN|9781493015702}} * ''The Detroit Tigers'' by Fred Lieb (wrote new foreword, 2008), {{ISBN|978-0-87338-958-7}} * ''Ty and The Babe'' (2007), {{ISBN|0-312-36159-9}} * ''The Detroit Tigers reader'' (editor, 2006), {{ISBN|0-472-03017-5}} * ''Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America'' (2004), {{ISBN|0-06-072290-8}} * ''The Road to Cooperstown'' (2003), {{ISBN|0-312-33118-5}} * ''The Final Season'' (2001), {{ISBN|0-312-29156-6}} * ''Rocket Man: The Encyclopedia of Elton John'' (coauthored with Claude Bernardin, 1995), {{ISBN|0-313-29700-2}}

== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.tomstanton.com/|Tom Stanton's official website}}

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