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Yankees manager Casey Stengel talks to reporters, October 1956
Museum of the City of New York, LOOK Collection, photograph by Marvin E. Newman
At the beginning of the era, many veteran reporters and columnists still wrote in the flowery style of early 20th century writers Grantland Rice and Damon Runyon, who composed their lead paragraphs before the game even commenced. Others deconstructed common baseball plays as if they were military maneuvers. In the 1950s, Dick Young of the Daily News, the most influential baseball writer of the time, brought a new style to the trade, working the clubhouse for quotes and vividly portraying the players as they were, often unflatteringly. His "tribe" of notable New York baseball writers of the period included Dave Anderson, Jimmy Cannon, Arthur Daley, Milton Gross, Leonard Koppett, Tom Meany, Harold Rosenthal, Red Smith, and Joe Williams.
