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Sid Mercer
James Sidney Mercer (August 4, 1880 – June 19, 1945) was an American sports writer who covered mostly boxing and baseball in St. Louis, Missouri and in New York City.
Mercer was born to James H. and Laura Ann Search Mercer on August 4, 1880 in Kerr Township,Champaign County, Illinois where his father farmed and attended school in nearby Paxton, Illinois.〔Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007 (on-line ). Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.〕 He began his career as a printer's apprentice with the ''St. Louis Republic''.
He later wrote for the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', before the St. Louis Browns hired him as their road secretary in 1906. The following year, Mercer was hired at the ''New York Evening Globe''. He later wrote for the ''New York Evening Journal'' and Hearst's ''American'' (later known as the ''New York Journal American''). He died June 19, 1945 in New York City〔Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.〕 and is buried in Glen Cemetery, Paxton, Illinois.〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=MER&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=16&GScntry=4&GSsr=281&GRid=62406017&〕
He was awarded the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1969.
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