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Hunter, Bob, 1913-1993
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Hunter, Bob, 1913-1993

BiographyWriter - Los Angeles, California;1988 BBWAA Career Excellence Award winner;"Bob Hunter (March 19, 1913 – October 21, 1993) was a Los Angeles sportswriter for 58 years (...). His career as a baseball writer began in the late 1930s at the Post Record in Los Angeles, where he covered the Los Angeles Angels and Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League. When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, Hunter was elected the first chairman of the Los Angeles chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). His coverage of the Los Angeles Dodgers, spanned more than 30 years and included every spring training through 1992. Hunter continued writing for the Examiner when it became the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner after a merger in 1962, and from 1977 until his retirement in May 1992 he worked for the Los Angeles Daily News."--Wikipedia