Sports writer and editor. Salsinger was best known as the sports editor and columnist for The Detroit News from 1909 to 1958. He began his career at age 14 by writing for a newspaper in Dayton, Ohio. He then moved to the Cincinnati Post in 1907. By 1909, he joined The Detroit News, where he covered baseball, football, golf, tennis, boxing, and the Olympics for the next 49 years. Salsinger became one of the most famous sports writers in the country. He covered 50 World Series and was president of the Baseball Writers Association of America and the Football Writers Association of America. His column, "The Umpire," along with his coverage of legendary baseball player Ty Cobb, stretched his reach past Detroit. Cobb once said that he "read every word Sal wrote - and no man could have been fairer." He was posthumously awarded the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1968 for excellence in baseball writing and was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.
Sports writer and editor. Salsinger was best known as the sports editor and columnist for The Detroit News from 1909 to 1958. He began his career at age 14 by writing for a newspaper in Dayton, Ohio. He then moved to the Cincinnati Post in 1907. By 1909, he joined The Detroit News, where he covered baseball, football, golf, tennis, boxing, and the Olympics for the next 49 years. Salsinger became one of the most famous sports writers in the country. He covered 50 World Series and was president of the Baseball Writers Association of America and the Football Writers Association of America. His column, "The Umpire," along with his coverage of legendary baseball player Ty Cobb, stretched his reach past Detroit. Cobb once said that he "read every word Sal wrote - and no man could have been fairer." He was posthumously awarded the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1968 for excellence in baseball writing and was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.
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