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Red Smith
Red Smith (Sportswriter. Born, Green Bay, WI, Sept. 25, 1905; died, New Canaan, CT, Jan. 15, 1982.) A graduate of Notre Dame, Walter Wellesley Smith began his newspaper career in 1927 with the Milwaukee Sentinel. He then progressed to the St. Louis Star (1928) and the Philadelphia Record (1937). He started to gain nationwide fame in […]
Joe King
Joe King (Sportswriter. Born, Jersey City, NJ, May 19, 1908; died, Ridgewood, NJ, Apr. 16, 1979.) Recognized as one of the first writers to see pro football as a major national sport, Joseph King began his career as a yachting writer. King joined the Evening Telegram in 1930. The paper became the World-Telegram in 1931 […]
Pat McDonough
Pat McDonough (Sportswriter. Born, Fargo, ND, Mar. 11, 1906; died, Kearny, NJ, Mar. 1, 1996.) On July 1, 1925, when the Evening Telegram was still located at 73 Dey Street in Manhattan, Patrick J. McDonough reported to work as a copy boy. In 1927, McDonough – who was known as “the figure filbert of the […]
Al Laney
Al Laney (Sportswriter. Born, Pensacola, FL, Jan. 11, 1896; died, Spring Valley, NY, Jan. 31, 1988.) Starting with the Pensacola Journal in his birthplace, Albert Gillies Laney moved to newspapers in Dallas, Tex., amd Minneapolis, Minn., before joining the U.S. Army during World War I. After two years in the service, Laney mustered out in […]
Phil Pepe
Phil Pepe (Sportswriter. Born, New York, NY, Mar. 21, 1935.) Starting at the World-Telegram in April 1957, Philip Francis Pepe became a top baseball and boxing writer. Pepe went through the merger that created the ill-fated World Journal Tribune in 1966 and the strike that delayed its launch. When the combined paper closed May 5, […]
Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson (Sportswriter. Born, Troy, NY, May 6, 1929.) Among the unusual distinctions Dave Anderson has earned during his career as one of America’s top sportswriters is that he was the last beat writer ever to cover the Brooklyn Dodgers for the Brooklyn Eagle. Indeed, Anderson was preparing to go to spring training when the […]
