He wasn't only sportswriter, he covered the Kennedy Assassination, wrote columns when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and the Democratic National Convention in 1960.

I remember occationally running into him at the colorful media watering hole, Joe Miller's. Especially one night when a few us of sat listening to Blackie spin his stories into the wee hours of the morning way after closing time.

Another great from my past is gone. RIP Blackie.





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