1903 - 2003
Sam Lacy American Journalist
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Details
| Birthday |
23rd October, 1903
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| Birthplace |
Mystic, Connecticut, USA
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| Died |
8th May, 2003
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| Place of Death |
Washington, D.C.
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| Buried |
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA
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| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Sportswriter, editor, TV/radio commentator
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| Occupation |
Journalist
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| Year(s) Active |
1920–2003
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Samuel Harold "Sam" Lacy (October 23, 1903 – May 8, 2003) was an African-American and Native American sportswriter, reporter, columnist, editor, and television/radio commentator who worked in the sports journalism field for parts of nine decades. Credited as a persuasive figure in the movement to racially integrate sports, Lacy in 1948 became the first black member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. In 1997, he received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing from the BBWAA, which placed him in the writers' and broadcasters' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.
