Warren Brown was considered one of the premier sports editors and sports columnists in the United States in a career that began in 1916 and continued successfully for more than half a century. Recognized as a versatile and prolific writer, Brown was as comfortable and adept at covering the so-called hard news stories as he was in covering sports. Educated as a classical and Latin scholar, he was renowned for his exceptional mastery of the English language, his encyclopedic memory, and his razor-sharp wit. He excelled at coining memorable phrases, whether behind a typewriter or behind a podium, and in either venue his humor could be sarcastic or benign--as easily capable of deflating as well as inflating. In his selection to The National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, Brown was cited as a "Californian who worked in New York and made his reputation in Chicago" and was heralded for...