Heywood Hale Broun
| Heywood Hale Broun | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 10, 1918 New York City, New York, USA |
| Died | September 5, 2001 (aged 83) Kingston, New York |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College |
| Occupation | Journalist, sportswriter, author, actor |
| Parent(s) | Ruth Hale and Heywood Broun |
Heywood Hale Broun (/ˈbruːn/; March 10, 1918 – September 5, 2001) was an American author, sportswriter, commentator and actor. He was born and reared in New York City, the son of writer and activist Ruth Hale and newspaper columnist Heywood Broun.
Broun was educated at private schools and Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1940, Broun joined the staff at the New York tabloid PM as a sportswriter. His career was interrupted by World War II in which he served in the United States Army field artillery. When the war ended he returned to the PM newspaper and wrote for its successor, the New York Star, which ceased operations in 1949. Woodie was married to Jane Lloyd Jones, and they had one son, Heywood Orren Broun, known as Hob, a novelist, who predeceased his parents in 1987.
Heywood Hale "Woodie" Broun, went from Broadway to CBS in 1966, where he worked for two decades as a color commentator on a wide variety of sporting events, including the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing alongside his colleague Jack Whitaker. Along with his long-time producer E.S. "Bud" Lamoreaux, he became a permanent fixture from the initial broadcast in January of 1966 of the Saturday edition of the CBS Evening News with Roger Mudd. Broun was noted for his "merry mustache, his loud jackets and his suitcase full of words, oh what words," as Lamoreaux later put it in a retrospective of Broun's work that appeared in a series of 36 half-hour shows on ESPN called Woodie's World.
Broun's Saturday five-minute Saturday night features on CBS were about the big stories and the not so little ones. Starting with Lombardi and Namath in Super Bowls I and III, moving on to Ali and Frazier, along with DiMaggio and Ted Williams and "the Miracle Mets," and Russell and Cousy and Wilt Chamberlain, and Nicklaus and Secretariat and Ruffian, Broun also contributed some distinguished reporting from the Mexico City and Munich Olympics where he reported on important world events like the "black power salute" of the American sprinters John Carlos and Tommy Smith at the playing of the National Anthem in 1968 and the terrorist attack on the Israeli wrestling team in 1972.
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