- Sportswriter who covered baseball for the Chicago Sun-Times (1943-1981) and Chicago Tribune (1981-2000). Also contributed to The Sporting News for over 30 years.
- Won the annual J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 1989, given by the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Credited with inventing the 'save' statistic for baseball pitchers in 1959. It became an official statistic in 1966.
- Named official historian of Major League Baseball in 1999.
- Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
- Inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame in 2004.
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