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My greatest claim to fame, I guess, is that I'm probably the only person ever to interview both John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon in the Green Bay Packer dressing room. (At different times and places. I interviewed Kennedy, then a U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, when Green Bay's Lambeau Stadium was dedicated in 1957. Just about a year later, I interviewed Nixon, then the vice-president, at Nickerson Field in Boston, after the Packers had beaten the Giants in an exhibition game.)
I grew up in Green Bay and graduated from East High School, which had earlier produced Curly Lambeau, the founder and long-time coach of the Packers, and "Sleepy Jim" Crowley, one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame and Vince Lombardi's coach at Fordham.
After majoring in English at Harvard, I worked for newspapers in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Massachusetts, as a reporter, sports editor, feature writer, book and theater reviewer, and Sunday magazine editor. Then, much to my surprise, I became an advertising copywriter and computer programmer.
In the meantime, I've written five books on sports and magazine articles on a variety of subjects, including a piece on the 1926 Duluth Eskimos that appeared in Sports Illustrated. Doing research for my first book, about 1970, I discovered that there simply wasn't much reliable sports reference material out there. Sports history, insofar as it existed at all, was largely a morass of myth and legend, misinformation, misspelled names, and misplaced dates.
That frustration led directly to my second book and eventually to three others. And it has now brought me to this Web site.
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