"Overtime at the Stadium"
Newspaper article
By: Arthur Daley
Date: December 29, 1958
Source: Daley, Arthur. "Overtime at the Stadium." The New York Times December 29, 1958, 25.
About the Author: Arthur Daley (1904–1974) was born in New York City. A baseball player at Fordham University, Daley turned to writing and was sports editor of the college newspaper. After graduation, he joined The New York Times in 1926, which became his lifelong job. He took over the "Sports of the Times" column in 1942 "until further notice," which lasted nearly thirty years until his death. Daley was a well-prepared interviewer who predicted the rise of professional basketball and football as major spectator sports. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956, the first sportswriter to do so, and wrote five books and numerous magazine articles.
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