Bunk MacBeth
Bunk MacBeth (Sportswriter. Born, Ingersoll, Ont., Aug. 19, 1884; died, Saratoga Springs, NY, Aug. 5, 1937.) Very few sportswriters can claim to have helped bring a major sport to a major city, but...
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George Hammond (Sportswriter. Born, New York, NY, Nov. 29, 1907; died, Mystic, CT, Dec. 4, 2003.) Straight out of college (like his fellow staffer Ed Dooley), George Hammond was hired as a...
View ArticleW.C. Heinz
W.C. Heinz (Sportswriter. Born, Mount Vernon, NY, Jan. 11, 1915; died, Bennington, VT, Feb. 26, 2008.) Justly celebrated as one of the most perceptive writers in the field, Wilfred Charles Heinz...
View ArticleHype Igoe
Hype Igoe (Sportswriter. Born, Santa Cruz, CA, June 13, 1885; died, Queens, NY, Feb. 11, 1945.) Coming from California in 1907 as a sports cartoonist, Herbert A. Igoe became one of New York’s leading...
View ArticleFred Lieb
Fred Lieb (Sportswriter. Born, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 6, 1888; died, Houston, TX, June 3, 1980.) From railroad clerk to national president of the B.B.W.A.A., Frederick George Lieb was among the...
View ArticleJohn Kieran
John Kieran (Sportswriter. Born, New York, NY, Aug. 2, 1892; died, Rockport, MA, Dec. 10, 1981.) Probably the most intellectual sports columnist ever in New York, John Francis Kieran was also the...
View ArticleWalter St.Denis
Walter St. Denis (Sports editor. Born, Pembroke, Ont., Mar. 19, 1877; died, New York, NY, Feb. 15, 1947.) When boxing returned to New York as a legal sport in 1911, the Frawley Law did not permit...
View ArticleBernard Thomson
Bernard Thomson (Sports editor.) Born, Point Fortune, PQ, Nov. 27, 1873; died, New York, NY, Feb. 26, 1937.) Among the most colorful lives ever by a New York sports editor was lived by a man...
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