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Vintage Cleveland: Photographs of Yesteryear
By James A. Toman
Price: $17.50
A memory-recharging pictorial review of how the
Cleveland landscape has changed over the past 125 years. It provides glimpses
of structures now gone, such as Millionaires’ Row, Euclid Beach Park, the market
houses, and the Detroit-Superior Bridge subway, to elements that keep renewing
themselves, like the Erieview Corridor along East Ninth Street, the lakefront,
and the old Doan’s Corner’s neighborhood and the adjoining University Circle.
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A Cleveland Original; 50 Years Behind the Lens
By Burt Graeff (with Ron Kuntz)
Price: $18.95
An illustrated history of the career of veteran Cleveland news and
sports photographer Ron Kuntz. In his more than 50 years as a professional
photographer, Kuntz covered baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, horse
racing and the summer and winter Olympic Games. He was also on the scene for
such news events as the Sam Sheppard murder trials, the Kent State war protest,
as well as the Hough Riot and Glenville Shootout in Cleveland. The book also
contains a chapter devoted his Kuntz’s commitment to prison ministry during
which has logged visits to some 2,000 prisons. Packed with 192 of his most
memorable photos, the 112-page, soft-cover book retails for $18.95.
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Burt Graeff
In a journalistic career spanning 40 years, Burt Graeff covered virtually every major sporting event, including the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA basketball Final Four, the U.S. Open and Masters golf tournaments. In his 15 years with the Cleveland Press, he covered the Cleveland Cavaliers for nine years and the Cleveland Indians for three. After the Press closed, Graeff went to the Cleveland Plain Dealer for the next 21 years, where he again covered the Cavaliers and was the back-up writer for the Indians for another 12. He retired on a buyout in 2007. Graeff was born and raised in the Cleveland area. He is a graduate of Orange High School and the Ohio State School of Journalism. He is married to his Orange H.S. classmate, June Marie Wise. They are parents of one daughter, Stacy, and have four grandchildren, Riley, Julia, Caroline, and Maggie. Graeff lives in Orange Village with his wife, his Jack Russell terrier Skip, and his three-legged cat Hobbes. Graeff previously was co-author of The Life and Legend of Joe Charboneau and From Fitch to Fratello.
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Ron Kuntz
In a photographic career that began in high school and continued on the professional level for United Press beginning in 1953, and later for UPI and Reuters, Ron Kuntz has traveled around the world, visiting every continent as will as both the North Pole and the South Pole. He has covered just about every major sporting event.
Major sporting events he covered include: the World Series, the Super Bowl, and 38 Kentucky Derbies. He covered 10 Olympic Games: Munich-72; Montreal-76; Moscow-80; Los Angeles-84; Seoul-88; Barcelona-92; Atlanta-96; Sydney-2000 and two Winter Games, Lake Placid-80; and Calgary-88. In 1974, he covered the Rumble in the Jungle, the Ali-Foreman championship fight in Kinshasa, Zaire. In 1978 he shot the World Cup Soccer Championship in Argentina and the Pan Am Games in Caracas, Venezuela. He has won many national and international awards and was nominated for four Pulitzer Prizes. Ron was inducted into his high school Hall of Fame in 1987. He was given the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He was inducted into the Press Club of Cleveland’s Journalism Hall of Fame in 2006. His pictures hang in the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame.
With over three decades of service as a photographer with the Bill Glass Prison Ministry, Ron has participated in 300 prison weekends, and has been in over 2,000 prisons throughout the United States and in Peru; South Africa; Brazil; Mexico, and Puerto Rico.
Kuntz resides in North Olmsted, Ohio, with his wife Nancy and son, Josh. They have four other children, Ronnie, John, Stephen and Rebeccah.
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