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Lawrence S. Katz has been writing about many subjects including baseball for over 50 years. His article commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Hall of Fame appeared on the cover of Sports Collectors Digest in 1989. His eBook, The Summer of Change: Baseball in 1939 (2020), is a revised edition of his book, Baseball in 1939: The Watershed Season of the National Pastime, published by McFarland and Company in 1995 and 2012. That book, and his abstract titled “Baseball & Cultural Change in the Late 1930s,” are part of the Baseball Hall of Fame Library collection. Katz contributed a chapter entitled "When Immortals Returned to the Minors" to The Perfect Game, an anthology published by the Taylor Publishing Company in 1993, republished in 1995. His work has appeared in many publications including The Baseball Research Journal [Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)], Primo Magazine, The Inside Game (SABR), and Nineteenth Century Notes (SABR).
Katz has spoken on a variety of baseball topics. He was a presenter on the subject of Depression Era baseball at the Baseball in Literature and Culture Symposium at Indiana State University; the Master of Ceremonies at a gala honoring United Shore Professional Baseball League CEO Andy Appleby and the return of minor league baseball to the Detroit area; a speaker at a dinner honoring former player Rose Gacioch, who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, featured in the movie A League of their Own; a debater on the subject of steroid use and the Hall of Fame at an event held at Jimmy John’s Stadium in Shelby Township, Michigan; and a speaker at an event honoring the life of Hank Greenberg in Southfield, Michigan. As a member of the Wayne Renaissance Choir, he performed a rendition of the National Anthem on the pitcher’s mound at a Detroit Tigers game in 1988.
He is a former television commercial actor and has been a radio and podcast guest, as well as a book club speaker. He has been a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) since 1983. Katz received his J.D. from Wayne State University Law School in 1972.
He lives in Michigan with his wife, novelist and non-fiction author Karen Tintori.