errol louis and i were working at the new york sun together as new young columns and we started to talk to our colleagues, the late great jack newfield and saying what he or favorite columns, who are your favorite palm this? ian jimmy breslin his friend both picked the same one called the death of frankie jerome. it hadn't been anthologized since 1924 and it took us weeks to find. jesse angelo are coeditor of the "new york post," we'll begin this process but at the end of the day this was a labor of love, and education with inspiration but it follows a ruler think you should follow when you are putting a book together. you should write the book you want to read. >> john avlon who hoosier favorite newspaper columnist of all-time? you have to have one. >> if i had to pick one i would probably pick jimmy breslin. >> why? >> breslin is the great and murray campton, pete hamill who will be with us later today, they can hit any pitch. they don't write in one genre. ernie cobb is the patron saint of new york columnist, a g.i. that died in battle a year after receiving a pulitzer by jimmy bresl