Alfred Henry Spink [SEP] place of death
Alfred Henry Spink
Alfred Henry Spink (August 24, 1854 – May 27, 1928) was a Canadian-born American baseball writer and club organizer based mainly in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1886, he established a weekly newspaper, "The Sporting News" (TSN), that emerged from World War I as the only national baseball newspaper or magazine.
Biography.
Born in the city of Quebec, Canada, Al Spink and his two brothers learned baseball's English cousin, cricket. The family of
did not focus exclusively on major league players or major league spans of careers.
Spink died 1928 in Oak Park, Illinois, almost 74 years old. He was the uncle of sportswriter Ernest J. Lanigan, who compiled the first encyclopedia of baseball, "The Baseball Cyclopedia".
References.
- Cooper, Mark (1996). "Alfred Henry Spink". "Baseball's First Stars". Edited by Frederick Ivor-Campbell, et al. Cleveland, OH: SABR.
- Spink, Alfred