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1973 BBWAA Career Excellence Award Winner Warren Brown
For more than half a century, Warren Brown consistently gave composition and expertise to sports pages across the country.
A graduate of St. Ignatius College (now the University of San Francisco) where he starred playing baseball, Brown joined the San Francisco Bulletin in 1916. In 1922, following his service in World War I, Brown moved to New York. The next year he was appointed sports editor of Hearst's Chicago Herald-Examiner.
Brown later became the first sports editor of Marshall Field's Sun in 1941 and was a columnist for the Chicago American (later Chicago Today).
A tall, spare figure, Brown brought to the typewriter the same sharp, biting wit that made him famous as master of ceremonies in the after-dinner circuit. The man who was responsible for nicknaming Red Grange "The Galloping Ghost," Brown wrote books about the Cubs and White Sox.
Starting in 1920, Brown saw every World Series for 50 years. Both a daily columnist and a working assignment man, Brown's witty and humorous remarks are still retold in the press box.
Brown passed away on Nov. 19, 1978.
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