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It says much when one legendary newspaperman feels as strongly about another as John Schulian does about Sandy Grady.
Schulian, 1984 recipient of the Boxing Writers Association of America’s Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism, calls Grady, one of his role models, “the Red Smith of Philadelphia from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.” That description is spot-on, and is much of a compliment to Smith, the late, great New York columnist who won the Fleischer in 1975 and in 1976 became the first sports writer to win a Pulitzer Prize, as it is to Grady.
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Schulian, 1984 recipient of the Boxing Writers Association of America’s Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism, calls Grady, one of his role models, “the Red Smith of Philadelphia from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.” That description is spot-on, and is much of a compliment to Smith, the late, great New York columnist who won the Fleischer in 1975 and in 1976 became the first sports writer to win a Pulitzer Prize, as it is to Grady.
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