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Warren Brown (January 3, 1894 - November 19, 1978) was an American sportswriter who spent the major portion of his career in Chicago, Illinois. Brown was born in Somersville, CA a mining town near San Francisco. His father Patrick was the local saloon keeper. When the Somersville mines flooded the family moved to San Francisco where Brown was a firsthand witness to the great earthquake of 1906. Brown attended St. Ignatius College (later renamed as The University of San Francisco) for his prep school as well as university years. During his college years Brown played baseball for the Sacramento minor league team in the summers.

After getting his undergraduate degree he began his sportswriting career with the San Francisco Bulletin. After serving in Army intelligence stateside during World War I, Brown returned to the Bulletin, but soon moved to William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Call-Post. Brown was one of the first sportswriters to hail a local boxer named Jack Dempsey. He also doubled as the paper's drama critic, specializing in vaudeville and musical comedy. In the early 1920s Brown was transferred to the Hearst paper in New York for a year. That is where he hired a young sportswriter named Ed Sullivan, who went on to be a society columnist & then a mid-century American icon with his TV variety show. Starting in 1920, Brown saw every World Series for fifty years. Brown's final move was to Chicago to be the sports editor of Hearsts Chicago Herald-Examiner. He was a sports editor, columnist & baseball beat writer (usually at the same time) for several Chicago papers over the next 40 years.

Mr. Brown was a friend and confidant of legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne. Mr. Brown and former Notre Dame running back Marchy Schwartz had dinner with Mr. Rockne in Chicago the night before his ill fated plane crash. He wrote Rockne's biography in 1931.

Long credited to Grantland Rice, Mr. Brown was actually the person that coined the nickname for fabled Illinois running back Red Grange. He wrote a column describing Grange's running style and said he was like a "Galloping Ghost." The nickname is one of the most famous in sports annals. Mr. Brown also coined the nickname "The Sultan of Swat" for legendary baseball icon Babe Ruth.

As a beat writer and columnist he was known for his acerbic wit and breezy reporting style. Following the 1945 World Series, he wrote a history of the Chicago Cubs as part of the Putnam series of books that covered all the major league baseball teams. Mr. Brown's famous quote from the 1945 World Series between the Cubs and Tigers of " I don't think either one of them is good enough to win it" usually surfaces as the Cubs reach rare playoff appearances.

It was sufficiently well-received that The Chicago Cubs is one book in that series that has been periodically re-issued. In 1947 he wrote a memoir of sorts called "Win, Lose or Draw". It was a collection of anecdotes about celebrated figures in sports Brown had crossed paths with in his first 30 years as a sportswriter.

In 1973 Brown was given the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Mr. Brown's three sons were all athletes at the University of Notre Dame. Sons Bill and Pete were swimmers while youngest son Roger was a backup quarterback for the Fighting Irish on the 1946 and 1947 National Championship teams. Mr. Brown also had a daughter Mary Elizabeth Rempe (nee Brown).

Mr. Brown died at age 84 in Forest Park, Illinois and is buried in Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside, IL next to his beloved wife and best friend, Olive Burns Brown.

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Total Books: 39
Pie Love Inventive Recipes for Sweet and Savory Pies Galettes Pastry Cremes Tarts and Turnovers
CakeLove in the Morning Recipes for Muffins Scones Pancakes Waffles Biscuits Frittatas and Other Breakfast Treats
United Cakes of America Recipes Celebrating Every State
2010 - United Cakes of America Recipes Celebrating Every State (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781584798392
ISBN-10: 1584798394
Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine
  • Currently 4.8/5 Stars.
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World Recipes for a Home Catering Business
2010 - World Recipes for a Home Catering Business (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781409270744
ISBN-10: 1409270742
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History of the Town of Hampton Falls New Hampshire From the Time of the First Settlement Within Its Borders 1640 Until 1900
History of the Town of Hampton Falls New Hampshire From the Time of the First Settlement Within Its Borders
History of Hampton Falls Nh
2010 - History of Hampton Falls Nh (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781151849595
ISBN-10: 1151849596
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History of Hampton Falls N H
2009 - History of Hampton Falls N H (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781150263002
ISBN-10: 1150263008
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A Romantic Time for Rhyme and Success Poetry
2009 - A Romantic Time for Rhyme and Success Poetry (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781409285427
ISBN-10: 1409285421
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History Of The Town Of Hampton Falls New Hampshire From The Time Of The First Settlement Within Its Borders 16401900
CakeLove How to Bake Cakes from Scratch
2008 - Cakelove How to Bake Cakes From Scratch (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781584796626
ISBN-10: 1584796626
Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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The Chicago White Sox
2007 - The Chicago White Sox [Writing Sports] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780873388955
ISBN-10: 087338895X
Genres: History, Sports & Outdoors
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The Great Peking to Paris Expedition
2005 - The Great Peking to Paris Expedition (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780732282530
ISBN-10: 0732282535
Genres: Sports & Outdoors, Nonfiction
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Colin Powell Soldier And Statesman
2005 - Colin Powell Soldier and Statesman [Black Americans of Achievement] (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780791082546
ISBN-10: 0791082547
Genre: Children's Books
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Black and White and Red All over The Story of a Friendship
2002 - Black and White and Red All Over the Story of a Friendship (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781586481568
ISBN-10: 1586481568
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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The Chicago Cubs
2001 - The Chicago Cubs [Writing Baseball] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780809323685
ISBN-10: 0809323680
Genre: Sports & Outdoors
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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1994 - Colin Powell [Black Americans of Achievement] (Audio Cassette)Paperback
Fidel Castro
1994 - Fidel Castro (Other)
ISBN-13: 9781562943851
ISBN-10: 1562943855
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Alternative Sources of Energy
1993 - Alternative Sources of Energy [Earth at Risk] (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780791015889
ISBN-10: 0791015882
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult, Science & Math
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John C Calhoun
1993 - John C Calhoun [Chelsea House Library of Biography] (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780791017272
ISBN-10: 0791017273
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
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Colin Powell Military Leader
Colin Powell Military Leader (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780785712817
ISBN-10: 078571281X
Genre: Children's Books
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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The Search for the Northwest Passage
The Search for the Northwest Passage [World Explorers] (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780791012970
ISBN-10: 0791012972
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Unjust Seizure Conflict Interest and Authority in an Early Medieval Society [Conjunctions of Religion & Power in the Medieval Past] (Hardcover)