Jim Murray (sportswriter)
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James Patrick Murray (December 29, 1919 - August 17, 1998) was an American sportswriter at the Los Angeles Times from 1961 to 1998.
Many of his achievements include winning the Sportswriter of the Year award an astounding fourteen times. In 1990, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his 1989 columns, and the Baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the J. G. Taylor Spink Award in 1987.
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