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...years with the Associated Press. Charles Willis Dunkley has probably covered more sporting events and been read by more newspaper readers than any other U.S. sportswriter. He has scored some notable beats, and between times turned out stories that have become part of the folklore of the sports world. One day in 1920, Charlie Dunkley got a call to drop around and see Ban Johnson, president of the American League. Dunkley was one of the few reporters Johnson tolerated, and for the A.P.'s man he had the biggest sports story in years. Dunkley left Johnson with the story...
...Charlie Dunkley was the first to dub Red Grange the Galloping Ghost. And when Fighter King Levinsky was knocked out by Jack Dempsey, Dunkley was on hand to report Levinsky's famed explanation, "I was in a transom...
...Dunkley got an example of how many people read his copy, which ran in many U.S. papers with no byline. Day after the World Series ended, Baseball Commissioner Landis called in Dunkley and showed him a desk piled high with wires and letters. Because Dunkley had correctly predicted that the Series would go seven games, readers were complaining that the Series must have been fixed. Reporter Dunkley. who quit school at 14 to cub on the Kalamazoo Gazette, joined the Chicago bureau of the A.P. in 1911, soon moved into a hotel room only one block away so he could...