A graduate of Fordham, Daley joined the New York Times in 1926. Ten years later he covered the Olympics in Berlin, the first Times sportswriter to get a foreign assignment. In 1942 he began 31 years as a columnist for the Times, and, in 1973, became the first sportswriter to win a Pulitzer Prize. Daley 's books include The Story of the Olympic Games (with John Kieran) and Times at Bat.
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