While sports editor of the American Communist Party newspaper The Daily Worker, he lobbied to end segregation in major league baseball.
Sports journalist for the "Daily Worker", a newspaper published by the American Communist Party. He pushed for integration of professional baseball in the 1930s and '40s.
Sports editor and columnist for the American Communist Party newspaper the Daily Worker who crusaded to end segregation in major league baseball in the 1930s and 1940s.
During WWII, he was an Army combat medic in the Pacific.
He grew up in Brooklyn and was a die-hard Dodgers fan. He was the sports reporter for his high-school newspaper.
In the early 1950s, he wrote two children's books about baseball. He had to publish them under pseudonyms because of his unpopular stance in favor of integration of major-league baseball.
Has two children Amy and Ray and granddaughter Jessie.