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Tom Rinaldi

Biography

Tom Rinaldi

Tom Rinaldi has been a national correspondent at ESPN since 2002. Among other honors, he has won 15 national Sports Emmy Awards and six national Edward R. Murrow Awards. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Dianne, their son Jack, and daughter Tessa.

Tom Rinaldi

Books by Tom Rinaldi

by Tom Rinaldi - Biography, Nonfiction

One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief for his back pocket. Welles kept it with him that day, and just about every day to come. When the Twin Towers fell, Welles’ parents had no idea what happened to their son, who had taken a Wall Street job there. Eight months after the attacks, his mother read a news account from several survivors who said they and others had been led to safety by a stranger, carrying a woman on his back, down nearly 20 flights of stairs. They didn’t know his name, but despite the smoke and panic, one of them remembered a single detail clearly: the man was wearing a red bandanna.