Sam Lacy
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title:
Sam Lacy
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Samuel Harold Lacy was an African-American and Native American sportswriter, reporter, columnist, editor, and television/radio commentator who worked in the sports journalism field for parts of nine decades. Credited as a persuasive figure in the movement to racially integrate sports, Lacy in 1948 became one of the first black members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). In 1997, he received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing from the BBWAA.
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American sportswriter
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lacy
date created:
2011-01-15T19:53:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T01:04:38Z
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