"Ed" Linn (November 14, 1922 - February 7, 2000) was an American sportswriter, author, and biographer who wrote extensively on baseball.
[2] He co-authored three books with Bill Veeck, at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball.
For the Saturday Evening Post, he covered the trial of Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald who assassinated President John F. Kennedy, and co-wrote the memoirs of bank robber Willie Sutton called Where the Money Was.
He also authored two novels called Masque of Honor and The Adversaries as well as several other non-fiction books, mostly on baseball.
[3] Linn died of cancer on February 7, 2000, in San Diego, California, aged 77.