Tag Archives: Metropolitan Basketball Writers
Moss Klein
Moss Klein (Sportswriter. Born, Newark, NJ, July 27, 1950.) Now deputy sports editor of the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, Moss H. Klein was the paper’s Yankees beat writer for 17 seasons (1976-92). Klein went on the beat four years after joining The Star-Ledger and landed in the middle of a tumultuous period of Yankees history. His […]
Murray Janoff
Murray Janoff (Sportswriter. Born, New York, NY, Apr. 26, 1915.) A member of the sports staff of the Long Island Press for 41 years (1936-77), Murray M. Janoff covered tennis, harness racing, pro football, college and pro basketball, baseball, and track and field. Janoff also covered the U.S. tennis championships (now known as the U.S. […]
Louis Effrat
Louis Effrat (Sportswriter. Born, New York, NY, Feb. 21, 1910; died, Royal Palm Beach, FL, Sept. 1, 1988.) For nearly 50 years, Louis Effrat was associated with The New York Times, most of that time as a sportswriter. Effrat began at The Times as a cityside copy boy in 1927. He soon gravitated to sports […]
