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By Scoop Malinowski Status: Sportswriting legend. Won Pulitzer Prize for Commentary 1989, JG Taylor Spink Award 1987. Columnist for Los Angeles Times 1961-1998. DOB: December 29, 1919 (died Aug. 16, 1998 in Los Angeles). Birthplace: Hartford, CT Childhood Heroes: Jimmy McLarnin. Welterweight champion in 1933. His name had the same …

By Scoop Malinowski DOB: August 24, 1960  In: Havre de Grace, Maryland Childhood Heroes: “Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer.” Early Baseball Memory:  “So many of them. I made a road trip with my dad when I was nine. My dad (Cal Sr.) was managing in AAA for the Rochester Red Wings. …