Dave Anderson

Early career Following his graduation from Holy Cross in 1951, Anderson joined the Brooklyn Eagle as a clerk. The position had opened after the newspaper acquired a teletype machine from the Daily Racing Form; within a year, sports editor Lou Niss began assigning Anderson to cover games involving the New York Yankees and New York Giants. In May 1953, when the Eagle regular Brooklyn Dodgers beat writer Harold C. Burr broke his hip, the 24-year-old Anderson was assigned to replace him. He covered the Dodgers for the remainder of that season and throughout 1954, reporting on a team that included Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, and Gil Hodges. On September 24, 1957, Anderson filled in for the paper's regular Dodgers reporter at the team's final game at Ebbets Field; he later recalled that he and reporter Bill Roeder were the last two sportswriters to leave the ballpark following the game. In 1964, Journal-American sports editor Max Kase assigned him to cover boxing, beginning what became a major focus of Anderson's career.

In April 1966, as the Journal-American prepared to merge with the World-Telegram and the Herald Tribune, Anderson accepted a severance package from the newspaper. He was hired a week later by The New York Times as a general-assignment sportswriter. He was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1990, joining three other past "Sports of The Times," columnists — Red Smith, Arthur Daley and John Kieran. In 2005, he received the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism. Anderson was inducted in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2006. Anderson retired from The Times in 2007, though he continued to contribute occasional columns, his last being an August 2017 article on the US Tennis Open.

Personal life Anderson resided in Tenafly, New Jersey. His wife, Maureen, died in 2014; they had three children, one of whom, Steve, was an ESPN vice president. Anderson died on October 4, 2018, in Cresskill, New Jersey. Publications

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