Before moving to Thailand in 2019 to open a sports bar with his family, Danny Knobler wrote and talked about sports for 40 years all over the United States. He’s best known as a baseball writer, with 18 years on the Detroit Tigers beat for Booth Newspapers and another 11 years as a national writer with various outlets. He has written two books on baseball, Numbers Don’t Lie and Unwritten.
A graduate of UCLA, Danny began his professional career at Baseball America in the 1980s. After a year as a free-lance writer, primarily with Sport Magazine and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Danny moved to Michigan to cover the Tigers. He began there in 1990, arriving just in time for Cecil Fielder’s 51-home run season and the final few years of Sparky Anderson, Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker’s Tigers careers.
CBSSports.com came calling in 2008, and Danny moved to New York and to a new role as a national baseball columnist. He later worked in a similar position for Bleacher Report, and covered games for ESPN.com and MLB.com, among others. He was also a regular panelist on the MLB Now show on MLB Network.
At the end of 2018, deciding it was time for something new, Danny and his wife moved to Pattaya, Thailand, opening Danny’s Sports Bar, now one of the more popular bars in town and – of course – the best place to watch sports in Pattaya.
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