
Bob Addie
With his trademark dark glasses and red socks, Bob Addie, the…

Lee Allen
At the time of his death in 1969, Lee Allen had been the historian…

Roger Angell
He is, perhaps, the most exquisitely talented writer ever to…

Walter Barnes
For 50 years, from 1889 to 1940, Walter Barnes was a sportswriter…

Sigfredo Barros
“There is no baseball off-season in Cuba,” declares Sigfredo…

Stan Baumgartner
In baseball history, few major leaguers have turned to sports…

Jim Bouton
Although he became a star for the most famous team in baseball,…

Bob Broeg
Bob Broeg (rhymes with “egg”) was a titan of sports writing…

Jim Brosnan
A fine major league pitcher for several years, Jim Brosnan wrote…
Ed Burns
Among a lifetime of lively anecdotes, perhaps none better evokes…

O.P. Caylor
Although most current reference works assign Oliver Hazard Perry…

Henry Chadwick
In the fall of 1856, a New York Times cricket journalist spotted…

Lou Chapman
“Pack a bag.” The speaker was Lloyd Larson, sports editor…

Larry Colton
For Larry Colton, one night in June 1968 seemingly devastated…

Russ Cowans
Russell J. “Russ” Cowans was known in Detroit as the “Dean…

Dan Daniel
Dan Daniel thought he had the best job on the newspaper. Several…

L. Robert Davids
Bob Davids, a career Federal government employee, never played…

Susan Fornoff
Susan Fornoff’s childhood influenced her career choice; the…

Randy Galloway
Suppose they started a baseball season and nobody came?That was…
Dick Gordon
Dick Gordon got his start by breaking a national story when he…

Jim Kennedy
As organizer and nonplaying manager of the hapless 1890 Brooklyn…

John F. Kieran
John Kieran stands among the legends of baseball writing with…

William F. Kirk
In an era when poetry commonly appeared in sports pages, and…

F. C. Lane
When he was in his early twenties, biologist Ferdinand Cole Lane,…