Jump to content
Main menu
Navigation
●Main page
●Contents
●Current events
●Random article
●About Wikipedia
●Contact us
●Donate
Contribute
●Help
●Learn to edit
●Community portal
●Recent changes
●Upload file
Search
●Create account
●Log in
●Create account
● Log in
Pages for logged out editors learn more
●Contributions
●Talk
(Top)
1
Biography
2
References
3
External links
Sid Mercer
●العربية
Edit links
●Article
●Talk
●Read
●Edit
●View history
Tools
Actions
●Read
●Edit
●View history
General
●What links here
●Related changes
●Upload file
●Special pages
●Permanent link
●Page information
●Cite this page
●Get shortened URL
●Download QR code
●Wikidata item
Print/export
●Download as PDF
●Printable version
Appearance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(1880-08-04)August 4, 1880
June 19, 1945
(1945-06-19) (aged
64)
Sportswriter
Baseball and boxing coverage
Honor Rolls of Baseball (1946)
J. G. Taylor Spink Award (1969)
James Sidney Mercer (August 4, 1880 – June 19, 1945) was an American sports writer who covered mostly boxing and baseballinSt. Louis and in New York City.
Biography
[edit]
A 1920 caricature of Mercer
Mercer was born to James H. and Laura Ann Search Mercer on August 4, 1880, in Kerr Township, Champaign County, Illinois, where his father farmed and attended school in nearby Paxton, Illinois.[1]
Mercer began his career as a printer's apprentice with the St. Louis Republic. He later wrote for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, before the St. Louis Browns hired him as their road secretary in 1906. The following year, Mercer was hired at the New York Evening Globe. He later wrote for the New York Evening Journal and William Randolph Hearst's American (later known as the New York Journal American). He was a charter member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).[2]
Mercer died on June 19, 1945, in New York City.[3] In 1946, Mercer was named to the Honor Rolls of Baseball by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.[4] In 1969, he was voted the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, the highest award bestowed by the BBWAA.[2]
References
[edit]
^ Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
^ "Sid Mercer". baseballbiography.com. Retrieved November 20, 2009.
External links
[edit]
Ford Frick
Jesse Haines
Broeg
Broun
Brown
Burick
Cafardo
Carmichael
Chass
Cobbledick
Collett
Collier
Conlin
Daniel
Drebinger
Dryden
Durso
Elliott
Falls
Feeney
Fraley
Fullerton
Gage
Gammons
Graham
Hagen
Holmes
Holtzman
Hummel
Hunter
Isaminger
Kaegel
Kaese
Kelly
Kieran
Koppett
Kurkjian
Lacy
Lang
Lardner
Lawson
Lebovitz
Lewis
Lieb
Lowe
Madden
McCoy
McGuff
Meany
Mercer
Munzel
Murnane
Murray
Newhan
Ocker
Peters
Povich
Reicher
Rice
Richman
Ringolsby
Runyon
Saidt
Salsinger
Shaughnessy
C. Smith
K. Smith
R. Smith
W. Smith
Spink
Stark
Stevens
Stockton
Whiteside
Young
Ed Barrow
John E. Bruce
John T. Brush
Barney Dreyfuss
Charles Ebbets
August Herrmann
John Heydler
Bob Quinn
Arthur Soden
Nicholas Young
Ned Hanlon
Miller Huggins
Frank Selee
John Montgomery Ward
Bill Dinneen
Bob Emslie
Billy Evans
John Gaffney
Tim Hurst
Kick Kelly
Bill Klem
Thomas Lynch
Silk O'Loughlin
Jack Sheridan
Harry Cross
William B. Hanna
Frank Hough
Sid Mercer
Tim Murnane
Francis Richter
Irving Sanborn
John B. Sheridan
William J. Slocum
George Tidden
Joe Vila
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sid_Mercer&oldid=1121912222"
Categories:
●1880 births
●1945 deaths
●Sportswriters from Illinois
●Baseball writers
●People from Champaign County, Illinois
●People from Paxton, Illinois
●BBWAA Career Excellence Award recipients
Hidden categories:
●Articles with short description
●Short description matches Wikidata
●Use mdy dates from February 2021
●Articles with hCards
●This page was last edited on 14 November 2022, at 20:41 (UTC).
●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0;
additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
●Privacy policy
●About Wikipedia
●Disclaimers
●Contact Wikipedia
●Code of Conduct
●Developers
●Statistics
●Cookie statement
●Mobile view