Mary Ellen Garber Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Mary Garber was born on April 19, 1916 in New York City, New York, USA as Mary Ellen Garber. She died on September 21, 2008 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
She was president of the Football Writers Association of America, which had initially denied her membership.
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She was determined to continue covering sports after the war, even though she was not allowed to sit in the press boxes at games. She was allowed in a men's locker room for the first time at the 1974 Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament.
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She started out as a society writer. When the all-male sports department was depleted during WWII, she moved to that section.
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She was a sports writer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel from 1946 through 1997.
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Was the only woman to win sports journalism's highest honor, the Red Smith Award given annually by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
$2 Million