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Article: Hummel inducted into baseball hall of fame.(Rick Hummel )(Interview)
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Like many sports writers, Rick Hummel likes to think he's an athlete. I understand, because as a former sports writer, I share the thought. Rick and I bowled together for many years on St. Louis Post-Dispatch teams and were on the same Post softball team that won the City Class B championship 21 years ago. That probably was Hummel's prime career achievement, but in July, that gilded trophy will be put aside, replaced by the J. G. Taylor Spink award in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
The white-haired, 60-year-old Hummel, a Post baseball writer for 33 years, joins his former boss, the late Bob Broeg, former Post sports editor and columnist J. Roy ...