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Dick Gordon (sports writer)

January 01, 1970

Charles Richards Gordon, known as Dick "Scoop" Gordon (January 15, 1911[1] – December 8, 2008), was an American sports journalist whose works were a regular feature in venerable sports magazines like The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, and Baseball Digest.[2][3] After earning his nickname "Scoop" in 1930 by reporting for The Daily Princetonian that golfing legend Bobby Jones would be retiring from active competition, Gordon went on to a sports reporting career which ended in 2008.[4][5][6]

Dick Gordon
Born
Charles Richards Gordon

(1911-01-15)January 15, 1911
St. Paul, Minnesota
DiedDecember 8, 2008(2008-12-08) (aged 97)
St. Paul, Minnesota
Other namesScoop
EducationPrinceton University
OccupationSports journalist
SpouseAdelaide

Childhood edit

Charles Richards Gordon grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Charles William Gordon, the proprietor of the fur clothing manufacturer Gordon & Furguson, Inc.[7][8][9] His mother, Charlotte Bishop Gordon, was a native of Connecticut.[10][11] At the time of the 1920 United States Census, Gordon was living with his parents, an older sister (Virginia), and two servants at 378 Summit Avenue in St. Paul,[10] in the home of his grandfather, Richards Gordon, a deacon of the Episcopal Church and a board member of the new "St. Paul Institute" (now the Science Museum of Minnesota).[12][13][14] The younger Gordon attended St. Paul Academy and wrote for the school newspaper Now and Then. The school's headmaster reportedly opined that Gordon was a better writer than F. Scott Fitzgerald,[9] who had been a student at the St. Paul Academy from 1908 to 1911.

Princeton and early career edit

Gordon later attended Princeton University, graduating in 1933. While attending Princeton, he was a reporter for The Daily Princetonian. He received the nickname "Scoop" in 1930 for being the first to report that professional golfer Bobby Jones was retiring from the sport.[5] After graduating from Princeton, Gordon returned to Minnesota and became a sports writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In January 1939, he joined the Chicago Daily News as a sports writer.[15]

World War II edit

During World War II, he served in the United States Marine Corps for 26 months. He served as a Marine Combat Correspondent in the Pacific Theater of Operations. In November 1943, his story about a U.S. Army baseball team that endured six months at Guadalcanal was published in The Sporting News.[16] After over two years of combat action, Sergeant Gordon was returned to Minneapolis and worked for a time as a U.S. Marine recruiter. On April 26, 1945, Gordon married Adelaide Washburne, a Smith graduate who had been teaching at the University of Minnesota and worked in the American Red Cross during World War II.[17] After the war ended, Gordon returned to his job as a sports reporter for the Chicago Daily News.[18]

Post-war career edit

From the late 1940s through the 1970s, Gordon was one of the leading sports writers in the United States. Between 1946 and 1976, almost 250 of Gordon's works were published in The Sporting News, an American-based sports magazine established in 1886.[19] From 1949 to 1970, Gordon's baseball writings were a recurring feature in Baseball Digest, the oldest continuously-published baseball magazine in the United States. When Sports Illustrated magazine launched in the mid-1950s, Gordon was one of the budding journal's first writers.[6] On a daily basis, Gordon worked the sports desk for the Minneapolis Star,[20] the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the Villager newspapers in the Twin Cities.[21] He wrote articles about the Minnesota Twins baseball team, the Minnesota Golden Gophers, and the Minnesota Vikings. Gordon covered the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley, California where the U.S. men's ice hockey team won gold. He continued to write for the Villager until he retired after a long career in early 2008.[4]

Family and death edit

Dick Gordon and his wife Adelaide spent 61 years together, their marriage producing three boys. Adelaide died in early 2007, and Gordon followed on December 8, 2008.[4][5][17] Sports Illustrated, the Star Tribune and his college newspaper all reported the passing.

Selected works edit

As an active sportswriter for almost eighty years, Gordon wrote thousands of articles on subjects ranging from baseball to hockey. The following are a small sampling of his works, listed chronologically:

  • Charles (The Man) Comiskey II Gets Sox Presidency as 21st Birthday Gift, The Sporting News, November 27, 1946
  • Little Brown Jug Series Good to the Last Drop, The Sporting News, October 22, 1947
  • Big Gopher Ekberg Stars in Studies Too, The Sporting News, January 5, 1949
  • Mickey Owen, Forgotten Man, Baseball Digest, February 1949
  • Four of 13 Survivors of Duluth Bus Crash Playing a Year Later, The Sporting News, August 3, 1949
  • Nomellini's the Monicker of Gophers' Lion of the Line, The Sporting News, October 19, 1949
  • , Minneapolis Star and Tribune, January 1956
  • Why He's Still Stan the Man, Baseball Digest, August 1957
  • Giel's Ready to Wheel, Baseball Digest, February 1958
  • Did Twin Cities Double Deals Selves Out of Big League Ball, Baseball Digest, March 1958
  • The Great Cepeda, Junior, Baseball Digest, April 1958
  • The Hottest Guy in Cold Storage, Baseball Digest, February 1959
  • "Can Jim Gentile Keep a Hot Bat and a Cool Head for Baltimore?", Baseball Digest, March 1960
  • 30-G Minimum Bonus Urged for Campus Raids, Baseball Digest, June 1960
  • Headaches of a Ten-Club Team, Baseball Digest, December 1960
  • Stallard - Made-to-Order Fireman, Baseball Digest, January 1961
  • Challenge from Latin America, Baseball Digest, May 1961
  • Should Power Bunt Winning Run to 3rd?, Baseball Digest, December 1961
  • Minnesota's Double K-Rations, Baseball Digest, February 1962
  • Pascual Finds It Doesn't Pay to Advertise, Baseball Digest, March 1962
  • Where to Play 46 Homers, Baseball Digest, April 1962
  • "The Truth about Donavan", Baseball Digest, July 1962
  • In Bluege's Footsteps, Baseball Digest, September 1962
  • Why the scarcity of big-name catchers?, Baseball Digest, October 1962
  • Are Superstars a Vanishing Breed?, Baseball Digest, February 1963
  • "How Allen Changed from Minnesota Villan to Star", Baseball Digest, March 1963
  • Are Own Homers Beating Twins?, Baseball Digest, February 1964
  • The Second Generation Doesn't Take First Honors, Baseball Digest, March 1964
  • "More Frequently than Anyone since Ruth", Baseball Digest, May 1964
  • Where There's Smokey, There's No Firing, Baseball Digest, June 1964
  • "Appling or Cronin?", Baseball Digest, August 1964
  • Control Confidence Conscience, Baseball Digest, April 1965
  • "A Breed of New Shortstops", Baseball Digest, September 1965
  • Those Odd Twins, Baseball Digest, October 1965
  • "Kicking Up A Rule Change At Princeton", Sports Illustrated, November 1965
  • Twin Firsts by a Twin, Baseball Digest, December 1965
  • Oliva's Lifetime Mark Best Now, Baseball Digest, September 1966
  • Letter Man at Minnesota, Baseball Digest, July 1967
  • Twins' Lightning Rod, Baseball Digest, May 1968
  • Graig Nettles - Is He a Star of the Future?, Baseball Digest, March 1969
  • "Rosy Ryan Remembers...51 Years of Baseball", Baseball Digest, June 1969
  • Grant Can't Stand Luxury of Emotions, The Sporting News December 6, 1969
  • Crosetti Vividly Remembers Glory Years of the Yankees, Baseball Digest, September 1970
  • "The Kick Football Dropped", Sports Illustrated, December 1971
  • The Northern League Baseball Cradle Empty Now, Baseball Digest, July 1972
  • Rookie White's Sizzling Catches Heat Up Vikes, The Sporting News, December 4, 1976
  • "Boxer Billy Miske Put Up The Fight Of His Life For One Last Christmas", Sports Illustrated, December 1984

References edit

  1. ^ Public record documentation for Charles Gordon, born January 15, 1911, residing at 38 Kenwood Pkwy, Saint Paul, MN, 55105-3512 (1993). Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
  2. ^ Blegen, Theodore; Heilbron, Bertha (2004). "Bobby Marshall". Minnesota History. 59: 171. ISSN 0026-5497. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  3. ^ Orodenker, Richard (2001). Dick Gordon. Vol. 241. The Gale Group. p. 123. ISBN 9780787646585. Retrieved July 24, 2011. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  4. ^ a b c Christensen, Joe. . The Minneapolis Star Tribune. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  5. ^ a b c "Charles Richards Gordon '33". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Trustees of Princeton University. June 10, 2009. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  6. ^ a b . Sports Illustrated. Time Inc. December 29, 2008. Archived from the original on December 8, 2009. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  7. ^ "Gordon & Ferguson: An Inventory of Its Records". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved July 27, 2011.
  8. ^ Census entry for Charles W. Gordon and family. Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: St Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota; Roll: 1118; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 94; Image: 1118.0.
  9. ^ a b "Charles Richards Gordon". Star Tribune Obituaries. April 19, 2009.
  10. ^ a b Census entry for Charles W. Gordon and family. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: St Paul Ward 7, Ramsey, Minnesota; Roll: T625_853; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 74; Image: 1131.
  11. ^ "Gordon-Bishop" (PDF). The New York Times. November 24, 1898.(reflecting mother's maiden name of Charlotte L'Estrange Bishop)
  12. ^ Journal of the Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Minnesota. St. Paul, Minnesota: Evans and Company. June 5, 1902. p. 128. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  13. ^ American Art Directory. Vol. 8. American Federation of Arts. R.R. Bowker. 1911. p. 425. Retrieved July 29, 2011.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ^ "About the Museum". Science Museum of Minnesota website. Science Museum of Minnesota. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  15. ^ "Squibs from St. Paul". The Sporting News. January 26, 1939.
  16. ^ Dick Gordon (Marine Combat Correspondent) (November 25, 1943). "Long Pacific Win Streak Threatened by Leathernecks". The Sporting News.
  17. ^ a b "Adelaide W. Gordon obituary". Star Tribune. January 28, 2007. Retrieved August 1, 2011.
  18. ^ Dick Gordon (of the Chicago Daily News) (November 27, 1946). "Charles (The Man) Comiskey II Gets Sox Presidency as 21st Birthday Gift". The Sporting News.
  19. ^ "Paper of Record home page". Paper of Record.(Archives of The Sporting News are available on the "Paper of Record" web site by subscription. A search of those archives reveals 247 articles written by Dick Gordon and published in The Sporting News.)
  20. ^ "The Fourth Estate". Editor & Publisher. 103. Editor & Publisher Co: 7. 1970.
  21. ^ Gelfand, Louis I.; Heath, Harry E. (1969). Modern Sportswriting. Iowa State University Press. p. 171. ISBN 9780813808000. Retrieved July 24, 2011.

January 01, 1970
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Charles Richards Gordon known as Dick Scoop Gordon January 15 1911 1 December 8 2008 was an American sports journalist whose works were a regular feature in venerable sports magazines like The Sporting News Sports Illustrated and Baseball Digest 2 3 After earning his nickname Scoop in 1930 by reporting for The Daily Princetonian that golfing legend Bobby Jones would be retiring from active competition Gordon went on to a sports reporting career which ended in 2008 4 5 6 Dick GordonBornCharles Richards Gordon 1911 01 15 January 15 1911St Paul MinnesotaDiedDecember 8 2008 2008 12 08 aged 97 St Paul MinnesotaOther namesScoopEducationPrinceton UniversityOccupationSports journalistSpouseAdelaide Contents 1 Childhood 2 Princeton and early career 3 World War II 4 Post war career 5 Family and death 6 Selected works 7 ReferencesChildhood editCharles Richards Gordon grew up in St Paul Minnesota the son of Charles William Gordon the proprietor of the fur clothing manufacturer Gordon amp Furguson Inc 7 8 9 His mother Charlotte Bishop Gordon was a native of Connecticut 10 11 At the time of the 1920 United States Census Gordon was living with his parents an older sister Virginia and two servants at 378 Summit Avenue in St Paul 10 in the home of his grandfather Richards Gordon a deacon of the Episcopal Church and a board member of the new St Paul Institute now the Science Museum of Minnesota 12 13 14 The younger Gordon attended St Paul Academy and wrote for the school newspaper Now and Then The school s headmaster reportedly opined that Gordon was a better writer than F Scott Fitzgerald 9 who had been a student at the St Paul Academy from 1908 to 1911 Princeton and early career editGordon later attended Princeton University graduating in 1933 While attending Princeton he was a reporter for The Daily Princetonian He received the nickname Scoop in 1930 for being the first to report that professional golfer Bobby Jones was retiring from the sport 5 After graduating from Princeton Gordon returned to Minnesota and became a sports writer for the St Paul Pioneer Press In January 1939 he joined the Chicago Daily News as a sports writer 15 World War II editDuring World War II he served in the United States Marine Corps for 26 months He served as a Marine Combat Correspondent in the Pacific Theater of Operations In November 1943 his story about a U S Army baseball team that endured six months at Guadalcanal was published in The Sporting News 16 After over two years of combat action Sergeant Gordon was returned to Minneapolis and worked for a time as a U S Marine recruiter On April 26 1945 Gordon married Adelaide Washburne a Smith graduate who had been teaching at the University of Minnesota and worked in the American Red Cross during World War II 17 After the war ended Gordon returned to his job as a sports reporter for the Chicago Daily News 18 Post war career editFrom the late 1940s through the 1970s Gordon was one of the leading sports writers in the United States Between 1946 and 1976 almost 250 of Gordon s works were published in The Sporting News an American based sports magazine established in 1886 19 From 1949 to 1970 Gordon s baseball writings were a recurring feature in Baseball Digest the oldest continuously published baseball magazine in the United States When Sports Illustrated magazine launched in the mid 1950s Gordon was one of the budding journal s first writers 6 On a daily basis Gordon worked the sports desk for the Minneapolis Star 20 the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Villager newspapers in the Twin Cities 21 He wrote articles about the Minnesota Twins baseball team the Minnesota Golden Gophers and the Minnesota Vikings Gordon covered the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley California where the U S men s ice hockey team won gold He continued to write for the Villager until he retired after a long career in early 2008 4 Family and death editDick Gordon and his wife Adelaide spent 61 years together their marriage producing three boys Adelaide died in early 2007 and Gordon followed on December 8 2008 4 5 17 Sports Illustrated the Star Tribune and his college newspaper all reported the passing Selected works editAs an active sportswriter for almost eighty years Gordon wrote thousands of articles on subjects ranging from baseball to hockey The following are a small sampling of his works listed chronologically Charles The Man Comiskey II Gets Sox Presidency as 21st Birthday Gift The Sporting News November 27 1946 Little Brown Jug Series Good to the Last Drop The Sporting News October 22 1947 Big Gopher Ekberg Stars in Studies Too The Sporting News January 5 1949 Mickey Owen Forgotten Man Baseball Digest February 1949 Four of 13 Survivors of Duluth Bus Crash Playing a Year Later The Sporting News August 3 1949 Nomellini s the Monicker of Gophers Lion of the Line The Sporting News October 19 1949 Mariucci by Phone We Rose to Heights Russia Too Good Minneapolis Star and Tribune January 1956 Why He s Still Stan the Man Baseball Digest August 1957 Giel s Ready to Wheel Baseball Digest February 1958 Did Twin Cities Double Deals Selves Out of Big League Ball Baseball Digest March 1958 The Great Cepeda Junior Baseball Digest April 1958 The Hottest Guy in Cold Storage Baseball Digest February 1959 Can Jim Gentile Keep a Hot Bat and a Cool Head for Baltimore Baseball Digest March 1960 30 G Minimum Bonus Urged for Campus Raids Baseball Digest June 1960 Headaches of a Ten Club Team Baseball Digest December 1960 Stallard Made to Order Fireman Baseball Digest January 1961 Challenge from Latin America Baseball Digest May 1961 Should Power Bunt Winning Run to 3rd Baseball Digest December 1961 Minnesota s Double K Rations Baseball Digest February 1962 Pascual Finds It Doesn t Pay to Advertise Baseball Digest March 1962 Where to Play 46 Homers Baseball Digest April 1962 The Truth about Donavan Baseball Digest July 1962 In Bluege s Footsteps Baseball Digest September 1962 Why the scarcity of big name catchers Baseball Digest October 1962 Are Superstars a Vanishing Breed Baseball Digest February 1963 How Allen Changed from Minnesota Villan to Star Baseball Digest March 1963 Are Own Homers Beating Twins Baseball Digest February 1964 The Second Generation Doesn t Take First Honors Baseball Digest March 1964 More Frequently than Anyone since Ruth Baseball Digest May 1964 Where There s Smokey There s No Firing Baseball Digest June 1964 Appling or Cronin Baseball Digest August 1964 Control Confidence Conscience Baseball Digest April 1965 A Breed of New Shortstops Baseball Digest September 1965 Those Odd Twins Baseball Digest October 1965 Kicking Up A Rule Change At Princeton Sports Illustrated November 1965 Twin Firsts by a Twin Baseball Digest December 1965 Oliva s Lifetime Mark Best Now Baseball Digest September 1966 Letter Man at Minnesota Baseball Digest July 1967 Twins Lightning Rod Baseball Digest May 1968 Graig Nettles Is He a Star of the Future Baseball Digest March 1969 Rosy Ryan Remembers 51 Years of Baseball Baseball Digest June 1969 Grant Can t Stand Luxury of Emotions The Sporting News December 6 1969 Crosetti Vividly Remembers Glory Years of the Yankees Baseball Digest September 1970 The Kick Football Dropped Sports Illustrated December 1971 The Northern League Baseball Cradle Empty Now Baseball Digest July 1972 Rookie White s Sizzling Catches Heat Up Vikes The Sporting News December 4 1976 Boxer Billy Miske Put Up The Fight Of His Life For One Last Christmas Sports Illustrated December 1984References edit Public record documentation for Charles Gordon born January 15 1911 residing at 38 Kenwood Pkwy Saint Paul MN 55105 3512 1993 Ancestry com U S Public Records Index Volume 1 database on line Provo UT USA Ancestry com Operations Inc 2010 Blegen Theodore Heilbron Bertha 2004 Bobby Marshall Minnesota History 59 171 ISSN 0026 5497 Retrieved July 24 2011 Orodenker Richard 2001 Dick Gordon Vol 241 The Gale Group p 123 ISBN 9780787646585 Retrieved July 24 2011 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a journal ignored help a b c Christensen Joe Dick Gordon longtime Twin Cities sportswriter dies at 97 The Minneapolis Star Tribune Archived from the original on October 17 2012 Retrieved July 17 2011 a b c Charles Richards Gordon 33 Princeton Alumni Weekly Trustees of Princeton University June 10 2009 Retrieved July 26 2011 a b For The Record Sports Illustrated Time Inc December 29 2008 Archived from the original on December 8 2009 Retrieved July 26 2011 Gordon amp Ferguson An Inventory of Its Records Minnesota Historical Society Retrieved July 27 2011 Census entry for Charles W Gordon and family Ancestry com 1930 United States Federal Census database on line Census Place St Paul Ramsey Minnesota Roll 1118 Page 15A Enumeration District 94 Image 1118 0 a b Charles Richards Gordon Star Tribune Obituaries April 19 2009 a b Census entry for Charles W Gordon and family Ancestry com 1920 United States Federal Census database on line Census Place St Paul Ward 7 Ramsey Minnesota Roll T625 853 Page 13A Enumeration District 74 Image 1131 Gordon Bishop PDF The New York Times November 24 1898 reflecting mother s maiden name of Charlotte L Estrange Bishop Journal of the Proceedings of the Forty Fifth Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Minnesota St Paul Minnesota Evans and Company June 5 1902 p 128 Retrieved July 29 2011 American Art Directory Vol 8 American Federation of Arts R R Bowker 1911 p 425 Retrieved July 29 2011 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link About the Museum Science Museum of Minnesota website Science Museum of Minnesota Retrieved July 29 2011 Squibs from St Paul The Sporting News January 26 1939 Dick Gordon Marine Combat Correspondent November 25 1943 Long Pacific Win Streak Threatened by Leathernecks The Sporting News a b Adelaide W Gordon obituary Star Tribune January 28 2007 Retrieved August 1 2011 Dick Gordon of the Chicago Daily News November 27 1946 Charles The Man Comiskey II Gets Sox Presidency as 21st Birthday Gift The Sporting News Paper of Record home page Paper of Record Archives of The Sporting News are available on the Paper of Record web site by subscription A search of those archives reveals 247 articles written by Dick Gordon and published in The Sporting News The Fourth Estate Editor amp Publisher 103 Editor amp Publisher Co 7 1970 Gelfand Louis I Heath Harry E 1969 Modern Sportswriting Iowa State University Press p 171 ISBN 9780813808000 Retrieved July 24 2011 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dick Gordon sports writer amp oldid 1221015763, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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