Tag Archives: Writer
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, […]
Dan Parker
Dan Parker (Sports editor. Born, Waterbury, CT, July 1, 1893; died, Waterbury, CT, May 20, 1967.) Among the longest-serving sports editors and columnists ever in New York, Daniel Francis Parker was titular head of the sports department at the Daily Mirror for 37 years (1926-63). A physically large man (6’4”, 250 pounds), Parker was often […]
