Allen Sangree

Allen Luther Sangree, also as Allan or Alan (c. 1878 – March 2, 1924) was an American sports writer and war journalist.

Life Father: Milton H. Sangree, Mother: Jane E. Hudson. Born around 1878, most likely in the area of Harrisburg or Steelton, Pennsylvania.

Attended Gettysburg College (class of 1892) Member of the Sigma Chi Theta fraternity

On the staff of the New York Sun some time around 1896 as well as for Cosmopolitan

Started writing as one of the featured baseball writers for the New York Evening World on March 11, 1905

Married Kate Bradley (1888–1952) on November 4, 1905

On October 2, 1908 Allen Sangree was asked by William McMutrie Speer (a member of the editorial staff of the New York World) via the city editor

George Carteret, to locate some Panamanians who had recently came to town with a possible connection to William Nelson Cromwell and the Panama Canal. Allen was unable to locate them, reported back to the editorial staff with no story and the assignment was crossed off. However Allen's investigation did appear to have stirred up William Nelson Cromwell's PR staff who approached Caleb Van Hamm (the managing editor) and "demanded ... what the World meant by getting after his boss without giving him a look-in."

Died March 2, 1924, in Trenton, N.J., after having been hospitalized for a breakdown two years earlier. Was a New York journalist who was at one time stationed in Cape Town South Africa as the secretary of the U.S. consul-general. He covered the Boer War in South Africa traveled with General Christiaan De Wet

Sports writer Wrote the often quoted piece

Wrote the short story "The Jinx" in 1910, which was included later in his book The Jinx: Stories of the Diamond (1911) which is probably one of the earliest written references to the word jinx to mean someone being unlucky. A review of the book "The Jinx: Stories of the Diamond"

Was a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 1911 and 1914

Other works Poet "Your Old Uncle Sam", which was put to the music of "The Old Grey Mare"