Colton played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1968. He played for Phillies farm team the Eugene Emeralds in 1965 when it was a Class A-Short Season Northwest League team and again in 1969 when it was a triple-A Pacific Coast League team.\n', '

Larry Colton has published hundreds of magazine articles for publications including Esquire, New York Times, Sports Illustrated and Ladies Home Journal. The author of five books, Colton was the recipient of the 2013 Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Oregon Book Award from Oregon Literary Arts. The award honors not only his achievements as a writer, but also his work as the founder of the literary festival and writing program, Wordstock. His book Counting Coup earned him Frankfurt eBook Award in non-fiction in 2000.\n', '

Colton\'s first book, Idol Time, examined the aftermath of the Portland Trail Blazers\' 1977 NBA championship, and while it reached primarily a regional audience, it foreshadowed the narrative approach Colton would apply in subsequent works.\n', '

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