Sportswriter who covered baseball for the Chicago Sun-Times (1943-1981)
and Chicago Tribune (1981-2000). Also contributed to The Sporting News
for over 30 years.
Won the annual J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 1989, given by the Baseball
Hall of Fame.
Credited with inventing the 'save' statistic for baseball pitchers in
1959. It became an official statistic in 1966.
Named official historian of Major League Baseball in 1999.
Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in
2005.
Inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame in 2004.