Al Hirshberg

Hirshberg wrote several books on the history of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, and co-wrote dozens of other people's memoirs, often, but not exclusively, about baseball players and/or Boston area sports figures and teams. He worked for The Boston Post from 1930 to 1952 and the Boston Herald from 1964 to 1968.^[1]

In 1969 he collaborated with Ken Harrelson on Harrelson's autobiographical tome Hawk.^[3][4]

Hirshberg had two children from his marriage to Marjorie Littauer Hirshberg, to whom he was married for 31 years until her death in 1970. Hirshberg then married Bert Cohen Hirshberg (née Milstone), an editor of Bostonia and benefactor of Boston University. It was her second marriage. They had no children together. She died in a car accident on February 2, 2008.^[5][6]

Hirshberg had continued sportswriting until his death and had moved to Longboat Key, Florida for the winter. He died of a heart attack at a hospital in Sarasota, Florida on April 13, 1973, age 63.^[1]