John Steadman(1927-2001)
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, John Steadman attended high school at
Baltimore City College and briefly played minor league baseball before
getting a job as a reporter for the Baltimore News-Post in 1945. He
spent more than fifty years as a sports reporter, sports editor and
columnist for the News-Post, the Baltimore News-American and the
Baltimore Sun. In 2000, he was inducted into the National Sportscasters
and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame.