Date of Birth
15 July 1905,
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
Date of Death
4 June 1998, Washington, District of Columbia, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name
Shirley Lewis Povich
Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)
Spouse
| Ethyl Friedman |
(1932 - 4 June 1998) (his death) |
Trivia
Wrote sports columns for The Washington Post newspaper from 1924 until his death (approximately 15,000 columns).
Received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for baseball writing in 1975.
Mistakenly listed in the first (1958) edition of "Who's Who in American Women".
Father of Maury Povich.
Father-in-law of Connie Chung.
Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 488-489. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.
Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
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