Frederick C. Klein (1938–2023) was an American sportswriter and the author or co-author of 18 books on sports and business.
Klein attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and wrote both for the student Daily Illini and for the Champaign-Urbana Courier.
Moving on to the Journal's main office in New York in 1967 and to the Chicago bureau in 1969, Klein increasingly focused on writing some of the newspaper's signature Page One features.
Currently in semi-retirement, Klein is dedicating his energies to environmental preservation and the publication of the "For The Love Of..." series of illustrated sports books.
The series includes books about Golf, Baseball, the Chicago Cubs, the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.