F. C. Lane's career as a sportswriter comprised only a part of a long and various life. Joining the staff of Baseball Magazine sometime in 1910 or early 1911 at the age of twenty-five, he is first listed as co-editor with the founder of the magazine, J. C. Morse, in the December 1911 issue. Beginning with the January 1912 issue, he is listed as sole editor, a position he held for twenty-six years, ending in December 1937. During his editorship, and in the many signed articles he contributed to the magazine, he broadened and deepened its original purposes: to be a celebrator and an independent but friendly critic of all dimensions of the National Game of baseball. Published monthly and year-round, Baseball could take a longer view of events than the daily papers or the weekly Sporting News and Sporting Life. The staples of Baseball were interviews with players and others attached to...