Sam Lacy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSam Lacy
American sportwriter
Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1903
Place of Birth: Mystic, Connecticut, United States
Date of Death: 08-May-2003
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Sam Lacy
- Samuel Harold "Sam" Lacy (October 23, 1903 – May 8, 2003) was an African-American and Native American sportswriter, reporter, columnist, editor, and television/radio commentator who worked in the sports journalism field for parts of nine decades.
- Credited as a persuasive figure in the movement to racially integrate sports, Lacy in 1948 became the first black member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
- In 1997, he received the J.
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- Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing from the BBWAA, which placed him in the writers' and broadcasters' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.
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