Jimmy Cannon
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Jimmy Cannon (born 1910 - December 5, 1973) was a sports journalist. He started at the New York Daily News when he was 17. He later wrote for the New York Post, New York Journal-American and King Features Syndicate. In 2002, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of the sport. He famously said of Joe Louis that he was "a credit to his race, the human race" and was one of the first sportswriters to see the importance of the black athlete. He would often start his articles with "Nobody asked me, but ...". Ernest Hemingway was early admirer of his writing.
