Ted Carroll

Ted Carroll (July 6, 1904 – January 11, 1973) was an American cartoonist and sportswriter. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2013.

Early life and education Theodore Carroll was born on July 6, 1904, in New York City, New York, United States. He later earned his diploma from the High School of Commerce in New York.

Career Early on, he worked at the Greenwich House in New York City, where he was the first basketball coach of Frank McGuire.

Newspaper work He turned his love of sports and drawing into a profession as a sports cartoonist. Primarily self-taught, he began producing illustrations for newspapers and magazines by the mid-1920s. His debut cartoon was published in the N. Y. Bulletin. He was among the first Black artists to work on a daily newspaper in New York.

He worked for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1933 to 1937.

The Ring magazine By 1935, he was the exclusive cartoonist for The Ring. Carroll's artwork appeared in The Ring for more than 50 years. In 1943, he began to contribute regularly to the Mitchel Field Beacon, a weekly newspaper at the Mitchel Field, where he was a First-Class Private. He earned the rank of first lieutenant before his eventual discharge. The publication, titled Ring Career: Jack Dempsey "The Manassa Mauler" vs. Joe Louis "The Brown Bomber," comprised 400 drawings.

Throughout the 1950s, CBS News purchased dozens of his cartoons annually for distribution to newspapers and magazines. Around 1958, he was hired to create illustrations for the columns of New York Daily Mirror sports editor Dan Parker. Among those in attendance were Dan Burley, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Joe Louis. He was also a personal friend of sportswriter Jimmy Cannon.