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Harry M. Stevens
Harry M. Stevens (Executive. Born, London, England, June 14, 1855; died, New York, NY, May 3, 1934.) Harry Mosley Stevens may be one of the few sports figures to have invented a business. Stevens’ efforts created the modern sports concessioning business, although he always referred to himself as a “publisher and caterer.” Stevens came with his […]
Lon Keller
Lon Keller (Cartoonist. Born, Lititz, PA, Aug. 2, 1907; died, Deland, FL, June 26, 1995.) After graduating from Syracuse University in 1929, Henry Alonzo Keller started out on a career as a magazine illustrator. It didn’t work out the way he planned, but fortunately for generations of sports fans, they were instead treated to Keller’s […]
Tad Dorgan
Tad Dorgan (Cartoonist. Born, San Francisco, CA, Apr. 28, 1877; died, Great Neck, NY, May 2, 1929.) Thomas Aloysius Dorgan was known universally as “TAD” for his signature on his sports cartoons. But more than a cartoonist, Dorgan was a sportswriter of some note and a phrasemaker who contributed much of the language and slang […]
