1. Max Kase was an American newspaper writer and editor.
39 Facts About Max Kase
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Max Kase worked for the Hearst newspapers from 1917 to 1966 and was the sports editor of the New York Journal-American from 1938 to 1966.
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Max Kase won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for his work exposing corruption in men's college basketball, primarily the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal.
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Max Kase's German-speaking parents, Solomon and Fannie Kase, emigrated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to New York in the late 1880s.
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At the time of the 1910 United States census, Max Kase was living with his parents and an older sister at 334 Georgia Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.
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At that time, Max Kase's father was employed as a grocer in a retail store.
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At the time of the 1920 United States census, Max Kase was living with his parents and two older siblings at the same address in The Bronx.
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Max Kase's profession was recorded at that time as a stenographer.
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Max Kase began work at age 16 as an office boy for the New York Evening Mail.
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Max Kase's moving feature from February 1923 about the death of a 17-year-old boy from Manhattan's Lower East Side was published in Hearst newspapers across the country:.
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When Dempsey left White Sulphur Springs, Max Kase described the scene he left behind:.
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Max Kase provided similar in-depth coverage leading up to the July 1923 championship bout between lightweights Benny Leonard, born in the Jewish ghetto of New York's Lower East Side, and Lew Tendler.
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In 1924, Max Kase was sent to Cuba as the editor and general manager of The Havana Telegram.
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Max Kase was reported to be the youngest person at that time to hold an editorial position with a Cuban newspaper.
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In 1925, Kase returned to New York as a sportswriter for Hearst's New York Journal under its longtime sports editor, Wilton S Farnsworth.
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Max Kase continued to cover boxing for the Hearst newspapers.
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In 1934, Max Kase was sent to Boston as the sports editor of Hearst's Boston American.
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Max Kase returned to New York in 1935 as a sportswriter and columnist for the New York Journal and, following the merger of Hearst's morning and afternoon papers, the New York Journal-American.
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In 1937, Max Kase was added to the committee of eight baseball writers charged with choosing the American League's Most Valuable Player.
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In October 1938, after Wilton Farnsworth retired to become a boxing promoter, Max Kase replaced him as the sports editor of the New York Journal-American.
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Max Kase became a fixture in New York's sporting world from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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In 1944, Max Kase became the chairman of the Fifth War Loan Sports Committee.
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Max Kase became convinced that professional basketball could be a success on a national basis.
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In 1944, Max Kase organized a basketball exhibition in New York featuring two of the top barnstorming teams.
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Max Kase approached Ned Irish, the president of Madison Square Garden who had successfully promoted college basketball matches at the venue, with a proposal to lease the Garden on open dates for use by Kase's professional basketball team.
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However, Irish was persuaded that Max Kase's idea had merit and, in 1946, Irish became one of the founders of the new Basketball Association of America and the original owner of the New York Knicks.
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Max Kase's idea was to fill those empty dates with pro basketball.
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In early January 1951, Max Kase met secretly with New York District Attorney Frank Hogan.
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Max Kase shared his findings with Hogan and agreed to withhold the story until Hogan could develop the case further.
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The college basketball point shaving scandals uncovered by Max Kase were considered the most serious in American sports since the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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In 1952, Max Kase was presented with a Pulitzer Special Citation for his work on the story.
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Max Kase had many other successes during his tenure as sports editor of the Journal-American.
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Max Kase solicited Babe Ruth to serve as chairman of the event.
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In 1950, Max Kase founded the B'nai B'rith New York Sports Lodge as part of the Anti-Defamation League's campaign to promote religious tolerance and fight anti-Semitism.
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Max Kase retired upon the publication of the paper's final edition on April 24,1966.
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In 1969, Max Kase opened a pub called the "Briefkase" in Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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Max Kase later opened a second "Briefkase" pub near Madison Square Garden.
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Max Kase died in March 1974 at Yonkers General Hospital after suffering a heart attack at his home.
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Max Kase was 76 years old at the time of his death.