Bob Broeg is a lifelong St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan. His love for the team began when he was a young boy. His parents subscribed to all four of the daily newspapers in St. Louis so the young Broeg could follow the Cardinals closely. Broeg’s journalism career began in Boston at the Associated Press bureau.… Read more »
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Bob Burnes
Robert Liston “The Benchwarmer” Burnes was a sportswriter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat for over 50 years. After attending St. Louis University, he started writing for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in 1936, then became sports editor in 1943, a position he held until the newspaper closed in 1986. During this time he was best known… Read more »
Dave Dorr
Dave Dorr’s contribution to basketball in Missouri was most significant during the 1970s and 1980s when the college game was enjoying its explosive growth. In 1991, he was only the second to be inducted into the writers wing of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. Dorr is a member of the United States… Read more »
Marty Eddlemon
Martin Lee “Marty” Eddlemon was born in Kansas City, Missouri, attended high school in Hannibal, and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia. He began his career as a sports writer at the Sporting News in St. Louis and later became a columnist, as well as sports editor, for Springfield Newspapers.… Read more »
Myron Holtzman
Like any sports writer, Myron Holtzman enjoys telling stories. The funny ones are the best, of course. Even his. “I went to the University of Missouri to be a business major,” Holtzman said, “and figured out I couldn’t add 2 plus 2, so I found another major.” Well, he not only found sports journalism but… Read more »
Rick Hummel
Hummel is a 1968 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and began working at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1971. He has covered 27 MLB All-Star Games, 29 World Series and 2 NCAA Final Four tournaments. Hummel was inducted into the writer’s wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY… Read more »
Stan Isle
The Stanberry native returned from a tour of duty in World War II to become sports editor of the Moberly Monitor-Index from 1946-1961. He helped to form and nurture the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, even serving as the Hall’s Executive Director for a time. He joined the staff of St. Louis-based “The Sporting News”… Read more »
Blair Kerkhoff
For more than 100 years, one of the country’s most respected newspapers could be found near downtown Kansas City on Grand Boulevard. Blair Kerkhoff, a sportswriter, would walk in in awe most days. The Kansas City Star, and the exterior walls fitted in brick, likely elicited similar reactions from many others. “Something that made an… Read more »
Kenneth L. Kieser
The story goes that a kind neighborly gentleman would drop off outdoors magazines at his house back when he was in junior high school. At first, it was a nice gesture. Then it became obsession. Kenneth “Kenny” L. Kieser remembers it all so well. He wouldn’t simply thumb through Outdoor Life or Field & Stream… Read more »
C.E. McBride
Born in Silver Springs, Missouri, Charles Edward McBride was the sports editor for the Kansas City Star for 43 years and served as a football official for 27 years before retiring. He started his career with the Saline County Index in Marshall, Missouri. McBride was first a reporter for the Kansas City Star from 1907… Read more »
Joe McGuff
McGuff was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Marquette University. He briefly served in the United States Army before being discharged due to asthma. After first working for the Tulsa World, he joined the staff of The Kansas City Star in 1948. He became sports editor in 1966 and was named editor of the Star… Read more »
Ernie Mehl
Ernie Mehl worked at the Kansas City Star for nearly 50 years, serving from 1950 to 1965 as sports editor. It was partially due to Mehl’s efforts that Kansas City got its first major league baseball team, the Kansas City Athletics. Later, in 1967, when the Athletics moved to Oakland, California, Mehl led the effort… Read more »
Bernie Miklasz
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 »
Tom Rackers
Growing up in Jefferson City, with his dad, Robert, working as the advertising manager at the News Tribune, Tom Rackers spent his days reading all about the sports stars of Kansas City, St. Louis and in his hometown. Back then, five newspapers combined from those I-70 cities were delivered to the family’s doorstep – two… Read more »
Rob Rains
He spent his youth in the 1960s here in the Ozarks, listening to the St. Louis Cardinals through the static of a transistor radio and, figuring his baseball talent wouldn’t take him far, he thought of another way of reaching the big leagues. For Rob Rains, if you couldn’t play for them, why not write… Read more »
Lyndal Scranton
He grew up in Springfield following the local high school or local college basketball teams, eventually kept stats of the Central High School boys and did the same for American Legion baseball teams. Usually for Lyndal Scranton, his summer nights ended in either calling in scores or running them by the Leader & Press. “That… Read more »