Richard Sandomir

Richard Elliot Sandomir (born September 4, 1957^[1][2]) is an American journalist who is an obituary writer for The New York Times. He wrote about sports, male-pattern hair loss and television; he is the author of several books including Bald Like Me: The Hair-Raising Adventures of Baldman and The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything.^[3]

Sandomir obtained his degree from Queens College, City University of New York. His wife, Griffin Miller, is an artist and writer.

Sandomir was a freelance writer and focused his work on sports for a number of publications which include: The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, and Sports. He also worked for Sports Inc. as a staff writer, a business reporter for New York Newsday, a staff writer for the Stamford Advocate, and a business writer for Financial World.

Sandomir worked for The New York Times as a television, sports, and business reporter from April 1991 to 2016.^[4]

• Bald Like Me: The Hair-Raising Adventures of Baldman, Collier Books, 1990, ISBN 9780020366508, OCLC 21376329
• Friendly Persuasion- Putnam, 1990
• The Joy of Baldness: Men With Less Hair and the Women Who Love Them, Spi Books, 1993.
• The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic. Hachette Books. 13 June 2017. ISBN 978-0-316-35516-2. OCLC 958797744

Books with Mark Reiter

• The Final Four of Everything- Simon & Schuster, 2009, ISBN 9781439126080, OCLC 317697822
• The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything. Bloomsbury Publishing. 9 December 2008. ISBN 978-1-59691-947-1.

Books with Rick Wolff

• Don't Worry, Stop Sweating...Use Deodorant- Andrews Mcmeel Pub, 1998, ISBN 9780836265095, OCLC 38410284
• Life for Real Dummies - Perennial, 1996, ISBN 9780060952075, OCLC 59666861^[5]

• Richard Sandomir at The New York Times

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