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- Jim_Vitti abstract "Jim Vitti is an award-winning author. He is best known for writing The Cubs on Catalina, which received The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award in 2005. This book was also named a finalist in the international Travel Essay category from ForeWord magazine and was named one of the top 25 books of the year by The Casey Awards (named in honor of baseball legend Casey Stengel).James Vitti has written numerous other books, including Publicity Handbook for Churches and Christian organizations (published by the Zondervan imprint of HarperCollins) and a pair of novels (Southern Gold and A Little Piece of Paradise), published by Thomas Nelson/WORD Books.His writing career also includes articles and columns for newspapers and magazines (such as the Sacramento Bee, Atlanta magazine, and The Rancho Cordova Grapevine), TV commercials, websites, and print ads (for Coca-Cola, Apple Computer, the University of California, and Ford, among others) for numerous ad agencies (such as Ogilvy & Mather, J. Walter Thompson, and McCann-Erickson). He has won more than 50 industry awards, including an ADDY Best of Show, a direct marketing Best of Show, and international honors from the ECHO and CLIO Awards. He is a graduate of Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova, California (where he worked on the same student newspaper as screenwriter/director Neal Jimenez), and the University of Oregon.As an author and journalist, he has met with and interviewed numerous notable figures, including Professional athletes: Baseball Hall-of-Famers Ernie Banks and Frank Robinson, 1945 National League MVP Phil Cavarretta, NBA Hall-of-Famer Oscar Robertson, NBA Coach Larry Brown, and more than 100 major league baseball players, professional football and basketball players, and Olympic athletes. Politicians: Ronald and Nancy Reagan, former Oregon governor Vic Atiyeh. Entertainers: Justine Bateman, Florence Henderson, Howard Hesseman, and Sigourney Weaver.He has also ghost-written for PGA legend Gary Player, former US Senator Sam Nunn, evangelist Billy Graham, former world heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield, attorney Gloria Allred, TV personality Bob Vila, and singer Lee Ann Womack.He is a distant cousin of actor Michael Dante (the stage name for Ralph Vitti), former major league baseball player Bob Saverine, former Saturday Night Live writer Jon Vitti, and Los Angeles Lakers trainer Gary Vitti. His brother, Anthony, set an NJCAA football record in 1980 (since tied) by blocking three punts in a game (for Sierra College). Jim Vitti has two daughters, Amy and Jenny, and lives in Southern California.In addition to writing, Vitti has also served as a political cartoonist for a suburban Gannett (parent of USA Today) newspaper outside Atlanta, and has appeared as an actor in several television commercials, independent films (including Race, directed by Peter Coyote), and as an extra in the Warner Bros. release, Personal Best. As the author of the Cubs book, he was featured in a PBS special about Catalina Island.".
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