Tag Archives: Brooklyn Citizen
Charlie Segar
Charlie Segar (Sportswriter. Born, Liverpool, England, Oct. 29, 1903; died, Sun City West, AZ, June 2, 2001.) As the youngest member of the B.B.W.A.A. ever, Charles M. Segar later became its national president and then a long-time baseball executive. Segar emigrated to the U.S. as a youngster, becoming an active semipro baseball player before joining the […]
Lou Niss
Lou Niss (Sports editor. Born, Minsk, Russia, Oct. 5, 1903; died, New York, NY, Apr. 30, 1987.) The last sports editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, Louis Niss was also the first front-office employee hired by the Mets, in 1960. Niss began his newspaper career in 1923 wirh the Brooklyn Times and worked his way through […]
Bill Granger
Bill Granger (Sports editor. Born, Brooklyn, NY, Feb. 9, 1877; died, Kew Gardens, NY, Jan. 17, 1945.) As a callow youth, he spent much of his time supporting himself as a bowling hustler, but William J. Granger wound up as sports editor of the Brooklyn Citizen for more than half of the paper’s 61-year existence. Granger […]
