Field: Media Inducted: 1996 Country: United States Born: 1890
in New York, New York Died: July 1, 1981
Dan
Daniel with
New York
Yankees
manager Miller
Huggins
at
the Bronx
Bombers 1928
spring
training camp.
For
nearly 50 years, Dan Daniel was America’s
most prolific baseball
writer. A sportswriter with the New York World-Telegram and
its successor, World Telegram and Sun, he
is known internationally
as “the writer
(1910–1950) who had more words published
in The Sporting News than any
other man,” according to C. C. Johnson
Spink, chairman of the board of The
Sporting News.
Daniel covered many other assignments
in the sportsworld, particularly
college football, and he and Nat Fleischer
founded boxing’s The Ring magazine.
He also is credited with staging
the first college basketball games in
New York’s Madison Square Garden.
In 1972, Daniel was recipient of the
Baseball Writers Association of America’s
J. G. Taylor Spink Award, the Baseball
Hall of Fame’s highest honor for
sportswriters. In 1977, Daniel was elected to the Boxing Hall
of Fame.