Emmett Watson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emmett Watson

baseball player

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1918

Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, United States

Date of Death: 11-May-2001

Profession: columnist, journalist, baseball player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Emmett Watson (November 22, 1918 – May 11, 2001) was an American newspaper columnist in Seattle, Washington, whose columns ran in a number of Seattle newspapers over a span of more than fifty years.
Initially a sportswriter, he is primarily known for authoring a social commentary column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) from 1956 until 1982, when he moved to The Seattle Times and continued there as a columnist until shortly before his death in 2001. Watson, who grew up in Seattle in the 1920s and 1930s, was a tireless advocate, through his column as well as through a fictional organization he created called Lesser Seattle, for limiting the seemingly unbridled growth and urban renewal that dramatically altered the Seattle landscape during the second half of the twentieth century.