Jim Caple: Former ESPN, national MLB writer, dies at 61

Jim Capel, a baseball writer who spent 17 years at ESPN has died. He was 61. At the time of his death, he suffered from ALS and dementia.

He worked previously with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Capel attended R.A Long High School in Longview Washington.

Caple covered 20 World Series and six Olympic Games. He wrote a book, The Devil Wears Pinstripes which, according to Amazon.com, “takes on the rabid fans of baseball’s twenty-six-time World Champions, and offers a decidedly different slant on the New York Yankees-the losers of 13 World Series.

Caple also co-wrote the book Best Boston Sports Arguments with fellow sportswriter Steve Buckley and wrote a novel, The Navigator, which was partially based on his father’s stint as a B-24 navigator in World War II.