Pat Jordan (born April 22, 1941, in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American sports writer.
His work has been included in the Best American Sports Writing anthology series seven times.
He is also the author of A False Spring, a bittersweet memoir about his minor league baseball career, which is ranked #37 on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time.
and Time magazine called “one of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America…”