David Neft
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David S. Neft
- School Columbia University
- Born 1937
[edit] Biographical Information
David Neft was the driving force behind the first Baseball Encyclopedia, published by Macmillan in 1969. He was a pioneer in using computers to compile statistics and to typeset the massive book's pages. He later became the co-author of The Sports Encyclopedia:Baseball with Richard M. Cohen and also branched out into publications on basketball and football.
In 2010, he was among the first class of recipients of the Henry Chadwick Award.
[edit] Further Reading
- Mark Armour: "David S. Neft", in The Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Volume 39, Number 1 (Summer 2010), p. 127.
