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Sport (US Magazine)
''Sport'' was an American sports magazine. Launched in September 1946 by New York-based publisher Macfadden Publications, ''Sport'' pioneered the generous use of color photography – it carried eight full-color plates in its first edition. ''Sport'' predated the launch of ''Sports Illustrated'' by eight years, and is remembered for bringing several editorial innovations to the genre, as well as creating, in 1948, the ''Sport'' Magazine Award, given initially to the outstanding player in 11 major sports. In 1955 the magazine instituted an award honoring the outstanding player in baseball's World Series (Johnny Podres of the Brooklyn Dodgers was the inaugural winner); it was later expanded to include the pre-eminent post-season performers in the other three major North American team sports. What made ''Sport'' the most distinctive from ''Sports Illustrated'', however, was that it was a monthly magazine as opposed to SI's weekly distribution. ''Sport'' was published continually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Magazine
A sports magazine is usually a weekly, biweekly or monthly, magazine featuring articles or segments on sports. Some may be published a specific number of times per year. A wide range of sports are covered by these magazines which include general, auto racing, baseball, basketball, bicycling, body building, bowling, boxing, football, football "soccer", golf, gymnastics, karate, lacrosse, polo, skating, skiing, swimming, surfing, tennis, and wrestling. History Sports journalism started covering sporting events in the United States in the 1800s in newspaper and magazine format. The ''Sporting News'' being the oldest, and was first published March 17, 1886. ''Sports Illustrated'' (SI) originated in 1954, originally lead by Henry Luce and later André Laguerre, is one of the leading sports magazines in the United States. SI allowed "people to read more about what they had seen on television or read about in the newspaper". In Print Sports magazines in print include: Former Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe DiMaggio
Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "The Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D.", was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Born to Sicilian immigrants in California, he is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and is best known for setting the record for the longest hitting streak in baseball (56 games from May 15 – July 16, 1941), which still stands. DiMaggio was a three-time Most Valuable Player Award winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. During his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships. His nine career World Series rings is second only to fellow Yankee Yogi Berra, who won ten. At the time of his retirement after the 1951 season, he ranked fifth in career home runs (361) and sixth in career slugging percentage (.579). He was inducted into th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogden Nash
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by ''The New York Times'' the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry. Early life Nash was born in Rye, New York, the son of Mattie (Chenault) and Edmund Strudwick Nash. His father owned and operated an import–export company, and because of business obligations, the family often relocated. Nash was descended from Abner Nash, an early governor of North Carolina. The city of Nashville, Tennessee, was named after Abner's brother, Francis, a Revolutionary War general. Throughout his life, Nash loved to rhyme. "I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old," he stated in a 1958 news interview. He had a fondness for crafting his own words whenever rhyming words did not exist but admitted that crafting rhymes was not always the easiest task. His family lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Blumenthal
Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (other) * Martin County (other) * Martin Township (other) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Australia * Martin, Western Australia * Martin Place, Sydney Caribbean * Martin, Saint-Jean-du-Sud, Haiti, a village in the Sud Department of Haiti Europe * Martin, Croatia, a village in Slavonia, Croatia * Martin, Slovakia, a city * Martín del Río, Aragón, Spain * Martin (Val Poschiavo), Switzerland England * Martin, Hampshire * Martin, Kent * Martin, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, hamlet and former parish in East Lindsey district * Martin, North Kesteven, village and parish in Lincolnshire in North Kesteven district * Martin Hussingtree, Worcestershire * Martin Mere, a lake in Lancashire ** WWT Martin Mere, a wetland nature reserve that includes the lake and surrounding areas * Martin Mill, Kent North America Canada * Rural Municipality of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hy Peskin
Hyman Peskin (November 5, 1915 – June 2, 2005) was an American photographer known for several famous photographs of American sports people and celebrities published by ''Sports Illustrated'' and ''Life''. He was a pioneer of sports photography, with his work being ranked amongst the best sports photojournalism of the 20th century. In 1966 he changed his name to Brian Blaine Reynolds, and founded the Academy of Achievement, bringing young people together with statesmen and Nobel Prize winners. Early life Peskin was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, where his father Elias Peskowitz was a tailor who lost his job in the Depression, the family being saved by Hy's first job as a newspaper seller. Peskin became a newspaper journalist at the ''New York Daily Mirror'' after it started up in 1924, but soon became a photographer because it paid a higher salary. Sports photographers would work from the press box, limiting the pictures they could take. Peskin was the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvin Newman
Marvin E. Newman (born December 5, 1927) is an American artist and photographer. Early life and education At age 16, Newman entered Brooklyn College where he studied sculpture and photography with Walter Rosenblum. In 1948, Newman briefly joined the Photo League where he took classes with John Ebstel. In 1949, he moved to Chicago to study at the Institute of Design with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. After obtaining an MS degree in photography in 1952, Newman moved back to New York City. Career Newman has contributed to various publications including Sports Illustrated, ''Life'', '' Look'', Newsweek and '' Smithsonian''. Newman has authored or coauthored eight (8) books on the subject of photography. Newman received a Gold Medal for Editorial Photography from the New York Art Directors Club and the Lucie Award for his sports photography in 2009. He was at one time the national president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. Newman currently lives and works i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Heyer
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ozzie Sweet
Ozzie Sweet (Oscar Cowan Corbo; September 10, 1918 in Stamford, Connecticut – February 20, 2013 in York Harbor, Maine) was a sports photographer whose best work in photography was in creating an image, not capturing one. According to the New York Times, "Sweet's signature images from the 1940s through the 1950s and into the 1960s, many in the fierce hues of increasingly popular color film that emulated the emergent Technicolor Technicolor is a series of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades. Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films ... palette of American movies, helped define — visually, anyway — an era." External links "Ozzie Sweet, Who Helped Define New Era of Photography, Dies at 94," by BRUCE WEBER, The New York Times, February 23, 2013 1918 births 2013 deaths American photographers Sports photographers Artists from St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Schaap
Richard Jay Schaap (September 27, 1934 – December 21, 2001) was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author. Early life and education Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and raised in Freeport, New York, on Long Island, Schaap began writing a sports column aged 14 for the weekly newspaper ''Freeport Leader'', but the next year he obtained a job with the daily newspaper ''The Nassau Daily Review-Star'' working for Jimmy Breslin. He would later follow Breslin to the ''Long Island Press'' and ''New York Herald Tribune''. He attended Cornell University and was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, the ''Cornell Daily Sun''. He obtained a letter in varsity lacrosse playing goaltender. During his last year at Cornell, Schaap was elected to the Sphinx Head Society. After graduating in 1955, he received a Grantland Rice fellowship at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and authored his thesis on the recruitment of basketball players. Career Schaap began wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Kahn
Roger Kahn (October 31, 1927 – February 6, 2020) was an American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book '' The Boys of Summer''. Biography Roger Kahn was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 31, 1927, to Olga (''née'' Rockow) and Gordon Jacques Kahn, a teacher and editor. He attended Froebel Academy, a prep school, then Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. He attended New York University from 1944–1947. In 2004, he was named as the fourth James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz. He was a lecturer at Yale University, Princeton University, and Columbia University. Writing career Kahn began his newspaper career in 1948, when he took a job as copy boy for the ''New York Herald Tribune''. A keen Brooklyn Dodgers fan, he reported on their games over the 1952 and 1953 seasons. He became sports editor for ''Newsweek'' in 1956, and editor-at-large of the ''Saturday Evening Post'' in 1963. His best-known book is '' The Boys of Summer'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Daniel (sportswriter)
Dan Daniel (June 6, 1890 – July 1, 1981), born Daniel Margowitz, was an American sportswriter whose contributions over a long period led him to be called "the dean of American baseball writers". Early life Daniel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. His family moved to New York City when he was a boy, and he remained there throughout his career. He attended the City College of New York, where he managed the basketball team. Daniel received his first writing assignment with the ''New York Herald'' in 1909 at the age of 19. He decided to use a single-name byline, "By Daniel", because editors in the early 20th century were concerned that anti-Semitism would hurt newspaper sales if he used his Jewish surname. 1920s By 1924, Daniel had settled at the ''New York Telegram'', where he remained for the next forty years. In 1925, he won Best Story of the Year from the Baseball Writers' Association of America for his portrayal of Walter Johnson's loss in Game 7 of the Washington Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lardner (sports Writer)
John Abbott Lardner (May 4, 1912 – March 24, 1960) was an American sports writer, WW II war correspondent, and author. He was the son of Ring Lardner. Career Lardner attended Phillips Academy, graduating in 1929. After one year at Harvard, he left for the Sorbonne in Paris for a year, where he wrote for the ''International Herald Tribune''. Never finishing his college degree, he elected instead to work for the ''New York Herald Tribune'' from 1931 onward, following in his father’s path as a sports writer. Lardner wrote a weekly column for ''Newsweek'' called "Sport Week" until his death (he had been associated with the magazine since 1939). From 1933 to 1948, he was a sports columnist and war correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. He later became a war correspondent during World War II, dispatching from Europe and Africa. He also deployed with the first American troops to Australia in 1942, and wrote the book ''Southwest Passage'', published in 1943, documen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
