Harry Cross

Harry Edward Cross (September 9, 1881 – April 3, 1946) was an American sports writer and editor.

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Born in New Britain, Connecticut, Cross grew up in nearby Naugatuck. A distinguished alumnus of Naugatuck High School, he then graduated from Harvard College in 1905. He started his sports writing career with the Waterbury American that autumn and for the next four years.

Cross became sports editor of the Evening Post in 1920, but returned to the Times from 1924 through 1926. He then joined the sports staff of the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine in 1926, where he remained until 1945. He was briefly the sports editor at the Tribune in 1927, and exclusively covered baseball from 1942 to 1945.