Tag Archives: U.P.I.
Marty Lader
Marty Lader (Sportswriter. Born, Brooklyn, Jan. 29, 1936.) During his 33-year career at U.P.I. (1960-93), Martin Lader became a leading wire service authority on tennis, regularly covering the U.S. Open and other major events. Lader began at what was then United Press in 1956 as an agate clerk. (The organization became U.P.I. in 1958 when […]
Mike Tully
Mike Tully (Sportswriter. Born, Passaic, NJ, Sept. 11, 1951.) Michael T. Tully was a U.P.I. sports staffer for nearly 14 years (1977-91), during which time he was attached to the wire service’s baseball central operation. Tully covered not only local New York teams but also post-season, World Series, and All-Star Games. He was also later […]
John Jeansonne
John Jeansonne (Sportswriter. Born, Crowley, LA, Nov. 2, 1946.) John Fred Jeansonne joined the U.P.I. sports staff in New York as a reporter fresh out of the University of Missouri in 1969. Jeansonne has been at Newsday since 1970, covering the Islanders (1972-74) at their inception, the Football Giants (1973-78), and then Olympic sports. He […]
Fred McMane
Fred McMane (Sportswriter. Born, Summit, NJ, Nov. 3, 1940.) A college football editor, baseball writer, and ultimately sports editor, Frederick Edward McMane spent nearly 30 years with U.P.I. McMane joined U.P.I. in August 1964, after being discharged from the U.S. Navy. He had gotten his first serious news experience as sports editor of a weekly […]
Joe Donnelly
Joe Donnelly (Sportswriter. Born, Brooklyn, NY, Feb. 20, 1935.) Initially a general assignment reporter at the World-Telegram & Sun (1958-60), Joseph T. Donnelly went on to become a regular baseball writer for Newsday. Donnelly moved to Sport magazine in 1960 as an editor and writer. He left Sport in 1962 to become a U.P.I. sportswriter […]
