Crusinberry, James Arnot
James Arnot Crusinberry (1878-1960) Soundex Code C625
James Arnot Crusinberry, newspaper man;
born in: Hopkinton, Iowa, on Wednesday, December 11, 1878;
son of: William A. Crusinberry and Mary B. Crusinberry, nee: Mary B. Aitchison
education: public schools, Des Moines, Iowa;
Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, 1900-2;
University of Chicago, Chicago, 1902-3; James Arnot Crusinberry
married: Harriet Jane Crusinberry, nee: Harriet Jane MacConnell, of Chicago, on Wednesday, October 11, 1911;
daughter: Patricia Jane Crusinberry.
Reporter, Chicago Chronicle, 1903-06;
baseball writer, Chicago Examiner, 1906,
Chicago American 1907,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1908-10,
Chicago Tribune since 1911.
Office: Chicago Tribune.
Home: 7714 N. Eastlake Terrace
Source: Book of Chicagoans, 1917
Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1960, page 2
Crusinberry, Ex-Sports Writer, Dies
James Arnot Crusinberry, former Chicago Tribune baseball writer and a charter member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, died in MacNeal Memorial Hospital at the age of 81. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on Monday.
Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in the chapel at 25 E. Erie Street. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Pall bearers will be members of the Chicago chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America, which he helped organize in 1909, (51 years ago).
Mr Crusinberry had been living in Phoenix, Arizona, since his retirement in 1948. He had been visiting his daughter, Mrs. John M. Hayes, in Syracuse, New York until last Saturday. He had planned to spend some weeks at the Riverside, New York home of John Harrington, television commentator. The stroke occurred in Harrington's home Monday afternoon and Mr. Crusinberry was taken to MacNeal Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Hayes came here to attend him.
James Arnot Crusinberry joined with several other reporters in forming the Baseball Writers Association of America following the 1908 World Series in Detroit, Michigan. He had started his baseball writing career as a $10 a week reporter for the Chicago Chronicle in 1903 and was working for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at the time the writers association was formed.
In 1911, he joined the staff of the Chicago Tribune under Harvey T. Woodruff, Sports Editor at the time. He shared baseball coverage with I.E. (Si) Sanborn.
He became the first sports editor of the New York Daily News in 1921. He returned to the Chicago Tribune in 1924 and remained on the Tribune staff until 1927. Later he reported baseball for the Chicago Daily News and was a radio news commentator for the Columbia Broadcasting System until his retirement in 1948.
He played a considerable part in bringing out facts on the so-called Black Sox baseball bribery scandal of 1919.
