Episode 329
John Drebinger
Thu, 2018-Mar-29 00:01 UTC
Length - 1:44
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a random Wikipedia page every day.
The random article for Thursday, 29 March 2018 is John Drebinger.
John "Drebby" Drebinger (March 23, 1891 – October 22, 1979) was an American sportswriter for The New York Times from 1923 to 1964. He graduated from Curtis High School on Staten Island and went to work for the Staten Island Advance in 1911. In 1973, Drebinger was honored by the Baseball Writers' Association of America with the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for distinguished baseball writing. Recipients of the Spink Award are recognized at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in what is commonly referred to as the "writers wing" of the Hall of Fame. In October 1979, he died at a nursing home in North Carolina.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:01 UTC on Thursday, 29 March 2018.
For the full current version of the article, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drebinger.
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