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Will Wedge
Will Wedge (Sportswriter. Born, Zanesville, OH, Mar. 27, 1889; died, Detroit, MI, Sept. 8, 1951.) Recruited from ship news, a major beat at the time, William Guille Wedge became a leading baseball writer. Wedge dropped out of Case Tech (now Case Western Reserve) in Cleveland to pursue his writing career. He came to New York […]
Joe Vila
Joe Vila (Sports editor. Born, Boston, MA, Sept. 16, 1866; died, New York, NY, Apr. 27, 1934.) Among the more significant and influential sportswriters and sports editors of the first third of the 20th century was Joseph Spencer Vila. Starting in his native Boston, Vila went through a series of newspapers both there and in […]
