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Bill Slocum, Sr.
Bill Slocum, Sr. (Sportswriter. Born, Winsted, CT, Dec. 17, 1883; died, New York, NY, May 6, 1943.) Among the most prominent baseball writers and sports editors of his era, William Joseph Slocum started his rise with the Waterbury (Conn.) American in 1906. Slocum became sports editor of the American, that city’s afternoon paper, in 1908, but […]