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Harry Wismer
Harry Wismer (Sportscaster and club owner. Born, Port Huron, MI, June 30, 1913; died, New York, NY, Dec. 4, 1967.) From his start at WJR in Detroit in 1935, Harry Wismer was one of America’s leading sportscasters. In 1941, Wismer became the sports director and lead announcer for NBC’s second radio network (“Blue”), which shortly […]
Carl Lundquist
Carl Lundquist (Sportswriter. Born, Kansas City, KS, Oct. 24, 1913; died, Port Orange, FL, Aug. 26, 2000.) During the days when three wire services competed to supply news to American newspapers, Carl Wesley Lundquist was the lead writer on the World Series for the United Press. Lundquist covered the first of his 14 World Series […]
Oscar Fraley
Oscar Fraley (Sportswriter. Born, Philadelphia, PA, Aug. 2, 1914; died, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Jan. 6, 1994.) Starting as a golf writer in Philadelphia in 1937, Oscar Fraley became a noted wire service columnist and author. Fraley joined the United Press (which became U.P.I. in 1958) in 1940. He came to New York to take over […]
