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Lawrence Perry
Lawrence Perry (Sportswriter. Born, Newark, NJ, Nov. 10, 1875; died, Glen Ridge, NJ, Sept. 6, 1954.) Among the first syndicated sports columnists in the U.S., Lawrence Perry was also the founding editor of Yachting Magazine, a novelist, and a playwright. Perry left Princeton in 1897 to join The Sun evening editions as a writer, spent [...]
John B. Foster
John B. Foster (Sportswriter. Born, Norwalk, OH, July 16, 1863; died, Washington, DC, Sept. 29, 1941.) Successor, in 1908, to Henry Chadwick as editor of Spalding’s Baseball Guide, John B. Foster was also active as a sportswriter for over 50 years. Starting in Cleveland, O., in 1888, when he covered his first major league game, Foster [...]
