John Steadman
From SABR Encyclopedia
| John Steadman | |
| John P Steadman | |
| Bat/Throw: | R/? |
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| Height: | 6' 2" |
| Weight: | 165 |
| Born: | 1927-2-14 at Baltimore, MD (US) |
| Died: | 2001-1-1 at Towson, MD (US) |
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| SABR Searches: | Pictures of John Steadman | width:90% height:65% scrolling:auto | Pictures}} · Bibliography |
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Profile
Outside of baseball
- Elected to the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame in 2000.
- Covered 719 consecutive Baltimore professional football games and one of eight reporters to have covered the first 34 Super Bowls.
- Wrote seven books, "The Best (And Worst) of Steadman," an anthology of columns that in 1975 won the Dick McCann Memorial Award for Distinguished Writing. Others included "The Baltimore Colts Story" and "Miracle Men of Football," which celebrated the Colts' first championship in 1958; and "Days In The Sun," a compilation of columns from The Sun, published in 2000.
- SABR member
Sources
- . SABR Bulletin, 1985, issue 5.
- "A Baltimore Leagend, Champion of Underdogs". The Baltimore Sun, 2001-01-02.
- http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-steadmanobit,1,2911294.story, retrieved on 2010-05-05.
