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'Hal Lebovitz' (September 11, 1916 - October 18, 2005) was a longtime sportswriter and award-winning columnist.[1] He was a fixture on Cleveland's sports scene for more than six decades. In 2000, he was inducted into the writer's wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.[2]
Born in Cleveland, he graduated from Glenville High School in 1934 and went on to Western Reserve University where he received a degree in Chemistry. He had always wanted to be a journalist, and he became the sports editor of the school newspaper.[3]
He got his first job covering high school sports for the ''Cleveland News'' in 1942 and soon became a beat writer covering the Cleveland Browns and the Cleveland Indians. He was hired by ''The Plain Dealer'' in 1960 and was the paper's sports editor from 1964 to 1982. His writing continued to appear regularly in ''The News-Herald'' (Lake County, Ohio) and ''The Morning Journal'' (Lorain, Ohio) until his death in 2005 at the age of 89.
His writing was featured 17 times in the annual ''Best Sports Stories'' and selected for numerous other anthologies. He won countless writing awards and was inducted into 12 halls of fame. [4]
1. Hal Lebovitz, 89, sports columnist, ''The Boston Globe''. 2005-10-19.
2. Hal Lebovitz, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Accessed 2007-07-07.
3. Ask Hal - the Hall of Famer, Cleveland Seniors. Accessed 2007-07-07.
4. ''The Best of Hal Lebovitz: Great Sportswriting from Six Decades in Cleveland''. Gray & Company Publishers: Cleveland, 2004. ISBN 978-1-59851-023-2
'Hal Lebovitz' (September 11, 1916 - October 18, 2005) was a longtime sportswriter and award-winning columnist.[1] He was a fixture on Cleveland's sports scene for more than six decades. In 2000, he was inducted into the writer's wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.[2]
Born in Cleveland, he graduated from Glenville High School in 1934 and went on to Western Reserve University where he received a degree in Chemistry. He had always wanted to be a journalist, and he became the sports editor of the school newspaper.[3]
He got his first job covering high school sports for the ''Cleveland News'' in 1942 and soon became a beat writer covering the Cleveland Browns and the Cleveland Indians. He was hired by ''The Plain Dealer'' in 1960 and was the paper's sports editor from 1964 to 1982. His writing continued to appear regularly in ''The News-Herald'' (Lake County, Ohio) and ''The Morning Journal'' (Lorain, Ohio) until his death in 2005 at the age of 89.
His writing was featured 17 times in the annual ''Best Sports Stories'' and selected for numerous other anthologies. He won countless writing awards and was inducted into 12 halls of fame. [4]
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References
1. Hal Lebovitz, 89, sports columnist, ''The Boston Globe''. 2005-10-19.
2. Hal Lebovitz, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Accessed 2007-07-07.
3. Ask Hal - the Hall of Famer, Cleveland Seniors. Accessed 2007-07-07.
4. ''The Best of Hal Lebovitz: Great Sportswriting from Six Decades in Cleveland''. Gray & Company Publishers: Cleveland, 2004. ISBN 978-1-59851-023-2
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