death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
greensboro , north carolina 22 october 1979 staten island , new york american march 23 , 1891 john drebinger
 john drebinger baseball reporter for '' the new york times ''
john drebinger

john `` drebby '' drebinger -lrb- march 23 , 1891 - october 22 , 1979 -rrb- was an american sportswriter for `` the new york times '' from 1923 to 1964 .
he graduated from curtis high school on staten island and went to work for `` the staten island advance '' in 1911 .
in 1973 , drebinger was honored by the baseball writers association of america with the j.g. taylor spink award for distinguished baseball writing .
recipients of the spink award are recognized at the national baseball hall of fame and museum in what is commonly referred to as the `` writers wing '' of the hall of fame .
in october 1979 , he died at a nursing home in north carolina .
