RIP: Texas Sportswriter Blackie Sherrod
Voted Texas Sportswriter of the Year a record 16 times.
Perhaps the best thing about the illustrious newspaper career of William Forrest “Blackie” Sherrod, which began in 1946 at the Texas Telegram and went on to encompass the Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News, is that it came to an end before the full implosion of the print media world. Sherrod, retired since 2003, passed away today at age 96.
From an op-ed in the Morning News:
By the time The Dallas Morning News hired him in 1985, he had long been the gold standard for Texas sportswriting.
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