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Walter A. Bingham, Jr. (born August 27, 1930) is an American sportswriter and golf historian. Bingham was a writer and editor at ''Sports Illustrated'' from 1955-1989〔List of Sports Illustrated writers( Sports Illustrated Masthead )〕 During his career at ''Sports Illustrated'' he covered tennis, baseball, golf, college football and bridge. In 1982, he was named Assistant Managing Editor.〔(Letter From the Publisher, December 13, 1982 )〕 In 1983, Bingham left ''Sports Illustrated'' to join ''Time'' magazine at the request of its Managing Editor, Ray Cave. There, he helped organize coverage of the 1984 Winter and Summer Olympics.〔(Letter From the Publisher, December 10, 1984 )〕 In 2002, Bingham joined the ''Cape Cod Times'' as a sports columnist. His primary topic is PGA golf, but he also muses on life on Cape Cod and running. ==Running== In 1963, while covering the Boston Marathon for ''Sports Illustrated'', it dawned on Bingham that here was a major sporting event which the average man could enter. On lunch hours he trained for the race after the summer of 1964 in the W. 63rd Street YMCA in New York. With only about 350 runners, Bingham ran Boston in 1965 in 3:45 and finished 200th. After five straight appearances in Boston, Bingham retired from marathoning. His personal best was 3:22 in 1966. He finished the New York Marathon in 3:36 in 1980. In 1981, he finished with a personal best of 3:13. He explained his unusual improvement running over the age of 50, "The nice thing about this sport, is that you always seem to improve as long as you keep working at it."〔(Letter From the Publisher, November 3, 1980 )〕 In 1976, with his wife Betty, he co-founded the Port Washington Thanksgiving Day Five Mile race as a fund-raiser for the Save our Sports program for the local high school. In 2008, over 2000 runners participated in the event benefitting local charities.〔(Port Washington Thanksgiving Day Run )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Bingham (sportswriter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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