- Recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award (presented to a writer for meritorious contributions to baseball writing) in 1995.
- He was a captain in the Army Air Forces during WWII.
- Sports writer for The New York Times for 51 years; author of a dozen sports biographies and books on sports history.
- He started his journalism career at the Newark (NJ) Evening News in 1947. He also worked in radio before going to the NY Times, where he started covering sports in 1964.
- His sports writing earned him a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
- He has been writing for the New York Times since 1952. (April 2002)
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