About That Palindromic Byline...

The late Mark Kram never intentionally desired to be spelled the same backward as forward.

Last Sunday, Mark Kram Jr. shared a wonderful essay about his dad, the late sportswriter Mark Kram. Per the article title (“Bearing My Father’s Byline), the piece was mainly about being mistaken on the page for dad.

Kram Jr. also touched on the fact that “Mark Kram” is spelled the same backward as forward. A week after his explanation of how George Melvin at the Baltimore Sun became Mark, there is on this Father’s Day in the Times a sweet follow-up from Kalamazoo, Mich.

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