Dan (June 6, 1890 – July 1, 1981), born Daniel Margowitz, was an American sportswriter whose prolific contributions over a long period led him to be called the Dean of American Baseball Writers. June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining // 1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice 1513... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sports Journalism is a form of journalism that reports on sports topics and events. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ...

City College Basketball Team, 1910. Daniel is in the back row wearing a suit.

Daniel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. His family moved to New York City when he was a boy, and he remained there throughout his career. He attended the City College of New York, where he managed the basketball team. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 597 pixel Image in higher resolution (1066 × 796 pixel, file size: 197 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Dan Daniel (back row in suit) as manager of City College of New York basketball team, 1910. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 597 pixel Image in higher resolution (1066 × 796 pixel, file size: 197 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Dan Daniel (back row in suit) as manager of City College of New York basketball team, 1910. ...   Nickname: City of Homes Settled: 1636 â€“ Incorporated: 1636 Zip Code(s): 01103 01107 01108 01119 01129 â€“ Area Code(s): 413 Official website: http://www. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City... The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City)[1] is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ...

Daniel received his first writing assignment with the New York Herald in 1909 at the age of 19. He decided to use a single-name byline, “By Daniel”, because editors in the early 20th century were concerned that anti-Semitism would hurt newspaper sales if he used his Jewish surname. The New York Herald was a large distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between May 6, 1835 and 1924. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The byline on a newspaper or magazine article gives the name, and often the position, of the writer of the article. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ...

By 1924, he had settled at the New York Telegram, where he remained for the next forty years. In 1925, he won Best Story of the Year from the Baseball Writers Association of America for his portrayal of Walter Johnson's loss in the seventh game of the Washington Senators/Pittsburgh Pirates World Series match-up. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... official logo The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) is a professional association for baseball journalists writing for daily newspapers and magazines. ... Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887-December 10, 1946), American professional baseball pitcher. ... Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) Central Division (1994–present) Current uniform Name Minnesota Twins (1961–present) Washington Nationals/Senators (1901-1960) Ballpark Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome 1982-???? Metropolitan Stadium (1961-1981) Griffith Stadium (1903-1960) A.K.A Clark Griffith Park (1922) A.K.A National Park (III... Major league affiliations National League (1887–present) Central Division (1994–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1,4,8,9,20,21,33,40 Name Pittsburgh Pirates (1891–present) Pittsburgh Innocents (1890) (Also referred to as Infants in 1890) Pittsburg Alleghenies (1882-1889) Ballpark PNC Park (2001–present) Three Rivers Stadium... The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Washington Senators in 7 games. ...

In the early 1920s, Daniel helped start Ring Magazine with Nat Fleischer. He was a prolific contributor and editor throughout The Ring's history and could be seen behind his desk at The Ring when he was well past the age of 80. The 1920s is a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... Front cover of the first issue of Ring Magazine Ring Magazine is a boxing magazine that was first published in 1922. ... Nat Fleischer (1887-1972) was a noted Jewish-American boxing writer. ...

Dan Daniel Circa 1920

In addition to his daily columns for the New York Telegram (later World Telegram then World Telegram and Sun), Daniel wrote weekly columns for The Sporting News, contributing more words to that publication than any other writer in its history. From 1930 through the 1960s, Daniel was a frequent contributor to Baseball Magazine and other sports magazines of the day. His patriotic articles during World War II earned him wide praise. He was one of the first writers to identify the potential of both Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, extolling their virtues before either had swung a major league bat. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The Sporting News (TSN) is an American-based sports newspaper. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Dr. Seuss Jean Shepherd Ringo Starr John Steinbeck Gloria Steinem Tom Stoppard Hunter S. Thompson Gore Vidal Peter Vincent Kurt Vonnegut Andy Warhol Alan Watts Bob Weir Brian Wilson Tom Wolfe There were six Olympics held during the decade. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Joseph Paul DiMaggio, born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr. ... Mickey Mantle on a 1953 cover of Time Magazine. ...

In 1930, Daniel was elected president of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. That year, New York Mayor Jimmy Walker made Daniel sports chairman of his Committee for Relief of the Unemployed. The committee organized the first college basketball games in Madison Square Garden and raised the equivalent of 5 million dollars between 1930 and 1933. Walker presented a citation to Daniel at a testimonial dinner held in his honor, the first time a private citizen had been so-honored by the city. This article is about the 1926 Mayor of New York. ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ...

Also in 1930, Daniel helped convince Babe Ruth to sign his record US$80,000 contract with the New York Yankees. Ruth had been holding out for more money and had threatened to boycott spring training in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Daniel helped Ruth come to the decision to sign by reminding him that many of his fans were out of work and selling apples on street corners back home in New York City. For the eponymous band, see Babe Ruth (band). ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory[1], the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 32, 37, 44, 49 Name New York Yankees (1913–present) New York Highlanders (1903-1912) Baltimore Orioles (1901-1902) (Also referred to as... Downtown St. ...

Later in 1930, Daniel published Babe Ruth, Idol of the American Boy. This early biography of The Babe was developed from material Daniel had published in a series of feature stories in the New York Telegram. It included a forward to boys from The Babe admonishing them to “do everything in moderation”!

Starting in the 1940s, his "Ask Daniel" column ran in the World Telegram every Tuesday. Daniel answered thousands of baseball questions, becoming one of the game's leading experts and historians. Each spring, Daniel put his reputation on the line by predicting how the eight teams in each league would finish. Cartoonist Willard Mullin captured the audacity of these predictions in charming caricatures. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... Willard Mullin (1902 - 1978) was a U.S. sports cartoonist. ...

Willard Mullin Charicature of Dan Daniel Circa 1950

Daniel was an accomplished speaker and raconteur. He had a rasping voice and a biting wit, which made him a popular choice as master of ceremonies for sports dinners and roasts. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 577 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (667 × 693 pixel, file size: 161 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Willard Mullin Charicature of Dan Daniel Circa 1950 This image is of a sporting event poster, and the copyright for it is most... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 577 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (667 × 693 pixel, file size: 161 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Willard Mullin Charicature of Dan Daniel Circa 1950 This image is of a sporting event poster, and the copyright for it is most...

Daniel was official scorer for more than twenty games during Joe DiMaggio's 1941 hitting streak. His decisions are still criticized more than 60 years later, but Daniel maintained throughout his life that he called each play as he saw it. The following are the baseball events of the year 1941 throughout the world. ...

Shortly after Babe Ruth's death in 1948, Daniel wrote The Real Babe Ruth, his second biography of the Babe, which contained many of his personal recollections from having been friend and advisor to Babe Ruth. Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...

In 1972, Daniel received baseball's highest honor for a writer, the J.G. Taylor Spink Award at the Baseball Hall of Fame. In his acceptance speech, he thanked the players and the fans for “giving him the medium of a wonderful career”. He mused that without baseball, he would have ended up as a doctor and assured the audience that “Had I been a doctor, I would have made house-calls”. The following are the events of the year 1972 that happened world-wide throughout the sport of baseball. ... The J.G. Taylor Spink Award is the highest award given by the Baseball Writers Association of America to its members. ... The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located at 62 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests serving as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display of baseball-related...

At the age of 86, Daniel was still a relevant contributor to the history of New York City sports. In 1976, he co-authored “Yankee Stadium Then and Now”, a feature article in The New York Times. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

Daniel was a noted bibliophile and amassed a significant collection of first editions, befriending book sellers in the cities he frequented as he traveled with the Yankees and other teams. His collection included an imprint of Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric, published by Gunther Zainer in 1476. Bibliophilia is the love of books; a bibliophile is a lover of books. ... Aristotle (Greek: Aristotélēs) (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. ... Events March 2 - Battle of Grandson. ...

Dan Daniel died in Pompano Beach, Florida, at the age of 91. Location of Pompano Beach in Broward County, Florida. ...

External link

• Baseball Hall of Fame