1970s
In 1972, Daniel received baseball's highest honor for a writer, the J. G. Taylor Spink Award at the Baseball Hall of Fame. In his acceptance speech, he thanked the players and the fans for “giving him the medium of a wonderful career”. He mused that without baseball, he would have ended up as a doctor and assured the audience that “Had I been a doctor, I would have made house-calls”.
At the age of 86, Daniel was still a relevant contributor to the history of New York City sports. In 1976, he co-authored “Yankee Stadium Then and Now”, a feature article in The New York Times.
Daniel was a noted bibliophile and amassed a significant collection of first editions, befriending book sellers in the cities he frequented as he traveled with the Yankees and other teams. His collection included an imprint of Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric, published by Gunther Zainer in 1476.
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