In the old days of newspapers, sportswriters who climbed the ladder the right way, by rolling up their sleeves and doing the grunt work, earned respect from the old guard. Working in the trenches, they’d call it. And that’s exactly the way Bernie Miklasz began his career. At age 16, he wrote for a weekly… Read more »
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Ed Wray
Ed Wray was a sportswriter who was known for his column, “Wray’s Column” in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His career spanned 55 years. He focused mainly on horse racing, boxing, and football, particularly the history of the forward pass. The first legal forward pass was thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University in 1906… Read more »