As someone who has only recently begun spending a lot of time with these guys, I am so glad to have found this post. It puts a lot of things together for me. In the 60s and 70s at least, Newsday routinely has sports coverage that is head-and-shoulders above what else was coming out, in depth and sometimes in style. Now I know who to thank.
I also adore some of the older stuff, in the early 1900s, cresting, I think, in the 1920s. The other day I found a Reds-Giants game recap from 1920 that used the phrases "lese majeste" and "pasarangs." I have Google, so these were fun-if-weird Easter eggs for me, but how were newspaper readers in 1920 expected to understand such Hellenic-style jokes?
As someone who has only recently begun spending a lot of time with these guys, I am so glad to have found this post. It puts a lot of things together for me. In the 60s and 70s at least, Newsday routinely has sports coverage that is head-and-shoulders above what else was coming out, in depth and sometimes in style. Now I know who to thank.
I also adore some of the older stuff, in the early 1900s, cresting, I think, in the 1920s. The other day I found a Reds-Giants game recap from 1920 that used the phrases "lese majeste" and "pasarangs." I have Google, so these were fun-if-weird Easter eggs for me, but how were newspaper readers in 1920 expected to understand such Hellenic-style jokes?