Arnold Hano
Arnold Hano | |
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Born | Arnold Philip Hano March 2, 1922 New York, New York |
Pen name | Gil Dodge,[1] Matthew Gant,[2] Ad Gordon,[3] Mike Heller [1] |
Occupation | book editor, novelist, biographer, freelance journalist |
Education | |
Alma mater | Long Island University (1941)[5] |
Period | 1941–1942, 1946–present |
Genre | Crime fiction, Westerns, Film novelizations, travel literature, advocacy journalism |
Spouse | |
Children | |
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Military career | |
Service | United States Army |
Years of service | 1942–1946 |
Rank | Corporal |
Unit | 7th Infantry Division |
Battles / wars | Aleutian Islands Campaign, Battle of Kwajalein |
Arnold Philip Hano (born March 2, 1922)[11][12] is an American editor, novelist, biographer and journalist, best known for his non-fiction work, A Day in the Bleachers, a critically acclaimed eyewitness account of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, centered around its pivotal play, Willie Mays' famous catch and throw.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19] The author of several sports biographies, and frequent contributor to such publications as The New York Times, Sport, Sports Illustrated, and TV Guide,[20] Hano was, in 1963, both a Hillman Prize winner [21] and NSSA's Magazine Sportswriter of the Year.[22] More recently, Hano was Baseball Reliquary's 2012 Hilda Award recipient and a 2016 inductee into its Shrine of the Eternals.[19][23]
Early life and education
The youngest of two boys born to Clara (née Millhauser) and Alfred Barnard Hano,[24][25][26] Arnold Hano spent his pre-school years in northern Manhattan's Washington Heights, in close proximity to both the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium.[27] A Yankee fan at 4, Hano responded to New York's 1926 World Series loss by switching his allegiance from the Yankees to the Giants,[a] where it has remained ever since.[28] That same year, his family moved from Manhattan to the Bronx, where it would remain for more than a decade, precisely the period which, by Hano's own reckoning, comprised his formative years.
By age three, Hano had learned to read under the tutelage of his six-and-a-half-year-old brother, Alfred, Jr.[29] By the time he was eight, Hano was writing news stories for his brother's mimeographed weekly, The Montgomery Avenue News, albeit stories paraphrased from published newspaper articles. Before long, he grew tired of recycling other people's ideas. Once again, his brother encouraged him:
So I invented a cop who would always fall to his knees when he shot the bad guy and I called it Sitting Bull. It was my first pun. [...] I did about six or seven of these episodic things. I was eight years old, writing the equivalent of a novel for a street newspaper that we sold for a nickel a copy, door-to-door.[27]
The brothers' journalistic venture soon ran its course, and the writing muse receded, for the time being. Hano attended DeWitt Clinton High School, graduating in 1937,[4] and started that fall at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus. However, his initial plan to pursue a career in medicine soon fell by the wayside.
One day I wandered into the newspaper office, and they were laughing. I didn’t know you were allowed to have fun. They were enjoying themselves, so I changed from a science major to an English journalism major in my sophomore year. I became the sports editor of the college weekly in my junior year, and senior year I was editor-in-chief with another guy.[27]
For a budding sportswriter, the timing proved particularly fortuitous when LIU's basketball team won the recently established National Invitational Tournament (NIT) in two of those three years.[30] Long before that transpired, however, Hano knew one thing for certain. "I didn’t know how or what – would it be a newspaper, or freelance, or a novelist, but I knew I’d write."[27] Hano went on to earn his Bachelors degree, graduating cum laude in 1941.[31]
Career
That summer, Hano was employed as a copy boy by the New York Daily News.[32] Once his sports background was established, Hano's duties were expanded accordingly. Accompanying the News photographer to sporting events, he was now tasked with providing captions for those shots he brought back to the office, thus affording the nineteen-year-old undreamt of opportunities to chronicle baseball history. As Hano put it, almost 70 years later:
I’m the luckiest fan in the history of the world. When I was a copy boy at the Daily News, I was sitting in the Ebbetts Field press box when that ball got away from Mickey Owen.[27]
Interrupted in these endeavors by the United States' entry into World War II, Hano followed his brother into the armed forces in 1942 (Alfred, to the Air Force;[33] Arnold, the Army[34]), eventually serving in an artillery battalion of the Seventh Infantry Division, participating in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and later landing in the first wave on Kwajalein Atoll. Shortly after that battle, informed that his brother was missing in action on a mission over Germany, Hano successfully applied to be commissioned as an infantry officer at Fort Benning, thus allowing him to be deployed to the European Theater, where he hoped to find his brother. However, before this plan could be realized, the war ended and Alfred's remains were recovered.[35]
After his discharge, Hano returned to New York and a career in book publishing, first as managing editor with Bantam (1947–49),[27] then as editor-in-chief with Lion Books (1949–54).[36] In the latter capacity, Hano served as editor for, among others, novelists C.M. Kornbluth, David Goodis, David Karp and Jim Thompson.[37] Thompson, in particular, would benefit from Hano's input and support, which sparked an unprecedented period of productivity.[38][39]
It was during this period, specifically August 1951, that Hano debuted as an author with the baseball-themed young adult novel, The Big Out, described by The New York Times' reviewer Ralph Adams Brown as "one of the most thrilling sports novels this reviewer has ever read."[40]
But it was 1954 that proved to be the turning point for Hano; he left Lion Books, determined to sink or swim on the strength of his writing. What gave rise to this sudden resolve was an across-the-board ten per cent pay cut imposed by Martin Goodman.[27] But by far the most important event that year – or at least the most pertinent to Hano's emergence as a writer – was Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, Hano's handwritten record of which would form the basis for his breakthrough book, A Day in the Bleachers, published the following year. Notwithstanding poor marketing and disappointing sales,[41] the book was embraced almost without exception by critics [13] and has since come to be regarded as a classic of sports literature,[18][19] with new editions published in 1982,[42] 2004, and again in 2006.[43] Moreover, the book's signature passage, its description of Willie Mays' most famous play, has been, and continues to be, frequently cited,[44] quoted,[45] or reprinted in full.[16][46][47]
Buoyed by the book's enthusiastic reception, Hano began to establish himself as a freelance writer, his work appearing in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post,[48] Esquire, The New York Times,[5] the Los Angeles Times, TV Guide, Sport, Sports Illustrated, Seventeen, Good Housekeeping,[49] Boys' Life,[b] Argosy,[49] Saga,[21] and True's Baseball Yearbook.[50][51] Willie Mays was also the subject of one of several sports biographies written by Hano during the nineteen sixties and seventies, the others being Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Muhammad Ali.[13] Moreover, Hano was a frequent contributor to Lion Books' annual paperback series, Baseball Stars of 19 _ _ (later published by Pyramid Books), providing forty of its chapter-long player profiles between 1958 and 1975.[52] In addition, Hano wrote one book—Greatest Giants of Them All, published in 1967—composed entirely of such chapter-length biographies.[53]
Alongside this, Hano wrote at least three screenplay novelizations (see below under Books) based on Marriage Italian Style (1966), Bandolero! (1969) and Running Wild (1973). All were published by Popular Library under the Hano by-line. There may have been others written pseudonymously.
On April 7, 1964, Hano was named 1963's Magazine Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.[22] Two weeks later, he received the 1963 Sidney Hillman Memorial Award in the category of magazine journalism (as selected by judges Alan Barth, William Shirer and Howard K. Smith),[54] for “The Burned Out Americans,”[21] a muckraking study of conditions facing migratory farm workers in California's Central Valley.[55]
Hano has also taught writing at the University of Southern California, Pitzer College, and the University of California, Irvine.[20] Between 1989 and 1992, Hano was a contributing editor at Orange Coast Magazine.[56]
In 2012, Hano became the 12th recipient of Baseball Reliquary's annual Hilda Award,[19] established in 2001 "to recognize distinguished service to the game by a fan."[57] Four years later, with his induction into the Shrine of the Eternals, Hano became the first person to be honored twice by the Baseball Reliquary.[23]
On July 19, 2015, The Huffington Post announced the upcoming release of Hano! A Century in the Bleachers (circa fall 2015 with a November 2015 DVD release), a documentary examination of Arnold Hano's life and work, produced and directed by Jon Leonoudakis. Among its interviewees are Hano and fellow sportswriters Ron Rapoport, Ray Robinson, John Schulian, Al Silverman and George Vecsey, plus artist Mark Ulriksen, and former Major League stars (and subjects of multiple Hano magazine articles) Orlando Cepeda and Felipe Alou.[20][58][59][60]
Personal life
Hano has two children (Stephen A. and Susan C. Hano) by his first marriage.[9] Hano and his current wife, the former Bonnie Abraham, have been married since June 30, 1951;[8] they have a daughter, Laurel.[61] Bonnie and Arnold Hano have lived in Laguna Beach since September 1955, with the exception of a two-year Peace Corps stint spent in Costa Rica, starting in July 1991.[62]
Active in community affairs ever since their arrival, Hano was instrumental in writing and promoting a 1971 voter initiative establishing a 36-foot height limit on new buildings; with close to 62 percent of the city's registered voters participating, the measure was approved by a better than 3-to-1 margin.[63][64] In 2013, Hano and his wife were honored as Laguna Beach "Citizens of the Year" in the city's annual Patriot's Day Parade.[35]
Notes
- ^ This defection did not extend to player preferences; to this day, Babe Ruth's preeminence within Hano's baseball pantheon remains unchallenged.
I shifted in 1926 to the Giants, and 1927 began the Yankee dynasty that may have been one of the greatest teams ever. But I didn’t really care because I still remained a Babe Ruth fan. I loved watching him hit home runs. [...] Ruth was a great all-around ballplayer. [...] People think of him as a fat truck, but he could run. He ran gracefully with short steps, funny for a guy who was 6’3” [191 cm] and 210 [95 kg] before he starting getting fat. [...] Very graceful. He didn’t have a strong arm. Odd thing is, he didn’t have a powerful arm, he had a very accurate arm. [...] He would always throw to the right base. We say that about most outfielders. Ruth always threw to the right base. DiMaggio always threw to the right base. The others maybe did, maybe didn’t. Mays most of the time threw to the right base, but Ruth always threw to the right base. [...] The two most influential ballplayers that I’ve ever been involved with, that I’ve ever seen, are Ruth and Jackie Robinson. They both changed the game dramatically.[27]
- ^ See Further reading.
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- ^ a b Waddles, Hank. "Bronx Banter Interview: Arnold Hano". Alex Belth Bronx Banter. September 28, 2009. Retrieved 2015-08-24. "I was born in Washington Heights, which is at the top of Manhattan. And then when I was about four years old we moved across the Harlem River and into the Bronx. I grew up in the Bronx and went to DeWitt Clinton High School, which is the high school at the north end of the Bronx, and we were there until I was maybe fourteen or fifteen when we moved into Manhattan. The formative years were those years between maybe four and fifteen. [...] So I was writing at that age, and when I went to college – I started college when I was fifteen – I was going to be a doctor."
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- ^ "Engagements". The New York Times. September 16, 1941. Accessed, via ProQuest, 2015-08-24. "Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mosheim announce the engagement of their daughter Marjorie Adele to Arnold Hano, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hano."
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- ^ a b "Deaths: Grabenheimer". The New York Times. December 10, 1959. Accessed, via ProQuest, 2015-08-24. "GRABENHEIMER—adored grandmother of Marjorie Mosheim, Norma and Ernest Mosheim; devoted great grandmother of Susan and Stephen Hano."
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- ^ a b c Appel, Marty. "A Day in the Bleachers — The Willie Mays Catch". Sports Collectors Digest. Retrieved 2015-08-24. "'A Day in the Bleachers' was an immediate hit – with reviewers. It received 65 reviews, 64 of them glowing, with a full page in the New York Herald-Tribune, and an important review in The New York Times by James ('Studs Lonegan') Farrell. But it didn’t score with the public – barely 3500 sold in a year, and it went out of print a few years later, only to reemerge in 1982 as a reissue by DeCapo Press, and again, by DeCapo, a year ago in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the game.' [...] "Hano was a long-time contributor to SPORT Magazine, writing over 100 features for editors Ed Fitzgerald and Al Silverman, while also developing biographies of Mays, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Muhammad Ali. [...] He also wrote western novels and 'novelizations' of motion pictures (stories based on screenplays), like 'Marriage Italian Style,' a Sophia Loren film. He wrote some early novels for Lion under 'Matthew Gant,' because, 'I didn’t want to be publishing myself while I was editor-in-chief!'."
- ^ Farrell, James T. "Pastime Denizen: A Day in the Bleachers". The New York Times. August 7, 1955. Accessed via ProQuest, 2015-08-24. "On Sept. 29, 1954, some 52,751 people jammed into the Polo Grounds to see the first game of that series. One of them was a highly articulate Giant fan named Arnold Hano. [...] He has written a pleasing and attractive book, recreating an almost legendary day in the history of baseball. He describes the practice before the game, gives vignettes of other bleacher denizens, and writes a dramatic account of the game itself—and, though we know its outcome, our interest is held here as it might be in a novel."
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- ^ a b Kupferberg, Herbert. "Books: Diamond Show". Parade Magazine. April 15, 1990. Retrieved 2015-08-24. "There's lots of good reading too, the writers including Ernest Hemingway, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, John Updike and Arnold Hano—the author of a particularly vivid description of Willie Mays' most famous catch."
- ^ Vecsey, George. "Hazy Sunshine, Vivid Memory". The New York Times. September 29, 2004. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
- ^ a b Barra, Allen (2013). Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age. New York: Random House. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-307-71648-4. Retrieved 2015-08-27. See also:
- Kettmann, Steve . "Shocked, Shocked!". Salon. December 3, 2004. Retrieved 2015-08-28. "As a classic baseball book like “A Day in the Bleachers” by Arnold Hano — or anything by Roger Angell — reminds us, the first tool for understanding baseball is the eyes. Trust your eyes, as Hano did at the Polo Grounds, and you can see that steroids were a huge part of baseball in the storied summer of 1998, when a pumped-up Sammy Sosa battled pumped-up Mark McGwire for Roger Maris’ single-season home-run record."
- Miller, Stuart (2006). The 100 Greatest Days in New York Sports. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 69. ISBN . Retrieved 2015-08-28
- ^ a b c d "Hilda Award recipients". Baseball Reliquary. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
- ^ a b c Dreier, Peter. "The Blog: 'Hano! A Century in the Bleachers' Profiles Sportswriting Superstar in New Documentary". The Huffington Post. July 19, 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
- ^ a b c "Sociologist Scores New Negro Leaders". The New York Times. April 22, 1964. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
- ^ a b Associated Press. "McNamee, Runyon to Get Hall Spots". The Reading Eagle. April 7, 1964. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
- ^ a b "Shrine of the Eternals – Inductees". Baseball Reliquary. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
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- ^ "195 Are Graduated at L.I.U. Ceremony". The New York Times. June 10, 1941. p. 26. Accessed via ProQuest 2015-08-24. "Thirteen students received their degrees cum laude and two magna cum laude. [...] The following students were listed as winners of departmental honors: Seymour Bier, accounting; Anthony Barbaccia, Martin Bloom and Murray Silberberg, biology; Noel L. Conrade and Jack B. Hosid, chemistry; Andrew G. Crowley and Henry G. Neuschaefer, economics; John E. Gurka, Arnold Hano, Josephine Pincus and Ethel J. Shohet, English; Helen O. Pause, mathematics; Selma Rubin, retail distribution; Mildred Eichel, secretarial studies."
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- ^ Brown, Ralph Adams. "Among the New Books for Younger Readers". The New York Times. August 5, 1951. Accessed via ProQuest on 2015-08-24. "In 'The Big Out,' Arnold Hano has written one of the most thrilling sports novels this reviewer has ever read. Brick Palmer, outstanding major league catcher, accepts the charge of throwing a game, and banishment from organized baseball, rather than reveal his younger brother's dishonesty and thus ruin the latter's medical career. Brick's struggle with himself as he plays outlaw ball in Canada, the dramatic closing of a great career and the final clearing of his name are achieved through a well-knit plot."
- ^ Kahn, Roger. "Introduction," in Hano, Arnold (1955, 2004). A Day in the Bleachers. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81322-X. "A question, then, is why A Day in the Bleachers did not win more attention and, incidentally, all the sales that were its due?. In the 1950s, a prominent author announced, 'Don't waste your time with sports books. They never sell.' In publishing, a trendy business, editors believed the same thing. There is a significant element of self-fulfilling prophecy in the attention a book receives. If a publisher believes a book can be a best-seller, he takes steps to convert that belief to truth. Advertise. Send the author about to appear on radio and television programs. Get copies of the book into the hands of columnists, other authors and people of prominence who read. in short, get the book talked about. [...] But without loud banging of publicity drums, few books really have a chance.
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- ^ "Games People Play: A Historical Perspective > Spectator Sports: Baseball Fiction" [sic]. University of Delaware Library. Retrieved 2015-08-30. "A Day in the Bleachers tells, from a fan’s perspective, story of the first game of the 1954 World Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians, in which Willie Mays made his legendary over-the-shoulder catch deep in center field, known ever after as 'The Catch.'" See also:
- Davis, David. "Not all secrets are revealed in new book on Willie Mays". The Chicago Tribune. February 26, 2010. Retrieved 2015-08-30. "He inspired 'Willie's Time,' a memoir by his friend Charles Einstein, as well as Arnold Hano's 'A Day in the Bleachers,' which details 'the Catch.'"
- Livingston, Bill. "The 10 greatest sports moments ever (start the debate)". The Plain Dealer. August 31, 2011. Retrieved 2015-08-30. "If it had been played anywhere but the Polo Grounds, if it had been anyone but Mays chasing it, and if Arnold Hano hadn't written 'A Day in the Bleachers' about it, then Willie wouldn't still be running in what was left of the day's sunshine, the No. 24 on his back growing smaller and the moment swelling larger with each step."
- ^ Sherwin, Bob. "Griffey And Mays -- A New Legend Catches On: Mariners' Ken Griffey Jr. Draws Comparisons With Hall Of Famer Willie Mays For His Defensive Ability -- The Kid And The Say Hey Kid". The Seattle Times. July 7, 1991. Retrieved 2015-08-30. See also:
- Walsh, Joan. "Willie Mays". Salon. July 13, 1999. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
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- Saccoman, John. "SABR BioProject: Willie Mays". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved 2015-08-30. "At least as impressive as the catch was what happened next: As Arnold Hano described it in A Day in the Bleachers: '[He] whirled and threw like some olden statue of a Greek javelin hurler. ... What an astonishing throw. ... This was the throw of a giant, the throw of a howitzer made human.'”
- Levin, Josh. "Letter From the Playoffs: On Endy Chávez's catch in the sixth inning of Game 7 of the NLCS". Slate. October 20, 2006. Retrieved 2015-08-30. "Hano's book-length account of Game 1 of the 1954 Series, A Day in the Bleachers, describes Mays' catch for nine beautiful, suspenseful pages. 'Mays simply slowed down to avoid running into the wall, put his hands up in cup-like fashion over his left shoulder, and caught the ball much like a football player catching leading passes in the end zone,' Hano continues..."
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- ^ Maxwell, Evan. "High Rise Issue Will Be Put to Voters in Laguna". Los Angeles Times. May 15, 1971. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
- ^ Maxwell, Evan. "Laguna Beach Vote Bans Tall Buildings; Large Election Turnout Approves 36-Foot Limit". Los Angeles Times. August 4, 1971. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
Further reading
Articles
Written by Hano
- "Hanging Ten at Coronado". Boys' Life. July 1965. pp. 22–23.
- Whittaker, James (with Hano). "Fit to Climb a Mountain". Boys' Life. March 1966. pp. 34–35, 38–39.
- "Roberto Clemente: Baseball's Brightest Superstar". Boys' Life. March 1968. pp. 24–25 and 54.
- "Scouting in Tahiti". Boys' Life. February 1969. pp. 34–37.
- "Model–A Explorers of Orinda". Boys' Life. October 1969. pp. 32–33.
- "Who's No. 1? C-O-M-P-T-O-N!". Boys' Life. February 1970. pp. 26–27 and 57–58.
- "Madrid: The City Simpatico". Boys' Life. January 1970. pp. 34, 75–76.
- "That's Our Good Boy Scout Talking". Scouting. February 1971. pp. 33–35.
- "Why is Archie Bunker So Lovable". The Chicago Tribune. Sunday, March 12, 1972. Section 1A, pp. 1 and 6.
- "By the Light of the Midnight Sun". Boys' Life. February 1973. pp. 32–33, 70–73.
- "Bill McChesney: The Little Machine". Boys' Life. October 1976. pp. 26–29.
- "Greg Louganis: Diving Sensation at 16". Boys' Life. August 1977. pp. 28–31.
- "The Magical World of Greg Wilson". Boys' Life. October 1978. pp. 20–23.
- "Her First Name is Chief". Scouting. Volume 74, Number 1, January–February 1986. pp. 21–24.
- Cosby, Bill (with Hano). "High School Was a Load of Laughs". Boys' Life. December 1986. pp. 42–44.
- "Coasting: Exercising Restraint". Orange Coast Magazine. October 1989. pp. 158–160.
- "In Retrospect: Serving Time in the Jury Box". Orange Coast Magazine. October 1990. pp. 192–195.
- "In Retrospect: Life with Alfie". Orange Coast Magazine. November 1990. pp. 232–234.
- "In Retrospect: Over 26,000 Served". Orange Coast Magazine. December 1990. pp. 325–327.
- "A Love Affair With the Press". Orange Coast Magazine. February 1991. pp. 152–154.
- "In Retrospect: Jim Thompson Stories Don't Have Happy Endings". Orange Coast Magazine. March 1991. pp. 165–167.
- "In Retrospect: Three Score and Nine". Orange Coast Magazine. April 1991. pp. 150–151.
- "In Retrospect: Views From Abroad". Orange Coast Magazine. May 1991. pp. 165–167.
- "OC Forum: O.C. Can You Say?". Orange Coast Magazine. July 1991. p. 8.
- "In Retrospect: Loose Ends". Orange Coast Magazine. August 1991. pp. 142–143.
- "In Retrospect: Live From Costa Rica". Orange Coast Magazine. September 1991. pp. 149–151.
- "In Retrospect: Mi Familia". Orange Coast Magazine. November 1991. p. 157–158.
- "In Retrospect: Ya Voy Already". Orange Coast Magazine. March 1992. pp. 144–145, 147, 149.
- "In Retrospect: Juan Valdez Would Have Starved to Death". Orange Coast Magazine. May 1992. pp. 120–123 and 125.
- "In Retrospect: Much Ado About Nothing". Orange Coast Magazine. June 1992. pp. 152, 154–155.
- "The View From the Stands". The Los Angeles Times. April 2, 2006.
- Hano, Bonnie; Hano, Arnold. "Our Raymond, Our Friend". RaymondLieberman@Blogspot.com. Wednesday, May 10, 2010.
Written about Hano
- McLellan, Dennis. "Living On Peace Work : Laguna Beach Couple Join the Ranks of Corps' Older Recruits". The Los Angeles Times. June 21, 1991.
- Vecsey, George. "Hazy Sunshine, Vivid Memory". The New York Times. September 29, 2004.
- Epting, Chris. "Back to the Bleachers". The Los Angeles Times. August 27, 2006.
- Waddles, Hank. "Bronx Banter Interview: Arnold Hano, Part I". Alex Belth's Bronx Banter. September 25, 2009.
- Waddles, Hank. "Bronx Banter Interview: Arnold Hano, Part II".
- Nolan, Michelle (2010). "Arnold Hano's Innovative 'The Big Out'". Ball Tales: A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s through 1960s. . pp. 50–53. ISBN 978-0-7864-3985-0.
- Henrikson, Maggi. "Arnold Hano and his infectious zest for life". Laguna Life and People. February 3, 2015.
- Alderton, Bryce. "Man who covered the greats now in the spotlight". Laguna Beach Coast Pilot. September 17, 2015.
Books
- Hano, Arnold (1955, 2004). A Day in the Bleachers. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81322-X.
- Marriage Italian Style by Arnold Hano, inferred novelization of the uncredited screenplay by Eduardo De Filippo, Renato Castellani, Tonino Guerra, Leo Benvenuti and Piero De Bernardi, Popular Library 1965
- Bandolero! by Arnold Hano, novelization of the Western movie screenplay by James Lee Barrett, from a story by Stanley Hough, Popular Library 1967
- Running Wild by Arnold Hano, novelization of the screenplay by Finley Hunt, Robert McCahon and Maurice Tomeragel from a story by McCahon, Popular Library 1973
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