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Daley was born in Clinton Heights, Rensselaer County, New York and married Marion Rhines while a student at Union College in Schenectady, New New York
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He often used the pseudonym Monitor. They had a daughter, Marjorie May, and settled in West Brighton, New New York lieutenant is there that he launched his newspaper career, initially at the Staten Islander and as the Staten Island correspondent for the New York World, 1895–1899, and later, the Brooklyn Eagle and the New York Sun.
From 1900-1905 he created the popular Home Run Haggerty and Strike Out Sawyer fictional characters and launched his syndicated baseball stories.
Mr. Daley joined the New York Herald as a telegraph editor in 1905 and quickly worked his way up the ladder to night city editor, night editor, news editor and, ultimately, managing editors While at the World, his Monitor by-line headed regular weekly columns including Over the Plate and Sport Talk and he became a recognized authority on baseball, heading the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association.
When the World closed its doors in 1931, Mr. Daley went to work for The New York Times as a copy editor in the sports department until his death in 1952.
