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Creamer, Robert Watts was born on July 14, 1922 in Bronxville, New York, United States. Son of Joseph John and Marie Elizabeth (Watts) Creamer.
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The ultimate umpire relives the good old days on the diamond. Jocko Conlan was an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox when, one afternoon in 1936, he became an umpire. Thus began a career lasting more than a quarter century, most of it with the National League. Through the skillful writing of Robert W. Creamer, the ebullient Jocko makes his many years of umpiring so real that the reader can smell the peanuts and hear the swat of the ball. Jocko is packed with funny stories about famous players and the beleaguered umpire's lot.
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"I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." -- Babe Ruth Babe Ruth is without a doubt the most famous character ever produced by the sport of baseball. A legendary player, world-famous for his hitting prowess, he transcended the sport to enter the mainstream of American life as an authentic folk hero. In this extraordinary biography, noted sportswriter Robert W. Creamer reveals the complex man behind the sports legend. From Ruth's early days in a Baltimore orphanage, to the glory days with the Yankees, to his later years, Creamer has drawn a classic portrait of an American original.
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Creamer, Robert Watts was born on July 14, 1922 in Bronxville, New York, United States. Son of Joseph John and Marie Elizabeth (Watts) Creamer.
Creamer graduated from Tuckahoe High School in 1940. According to his New York Times obituary, he attended Fordham and Syracuse Universities but never graduated.
He spent most of his career at Sports Illustrated. In World World War II, he fought in Germany and was wounded. Following his discharge, he worked in advertising as a copywriter and at Collier’s Encyclopedia as an assistant editors
Creamer was one of the first hired on the staff of Sports Illustrated in 1954.
He served the magazine as a senior editor from inception to 1984, and wrote the weekly Scorecard section of the magazine. He also wrote for the New York Times.
As an author Creamer wrote what many consider the definitive biography of Babe Ruth, entitled Babe: The Legend Comes to Life, in 1974. Of Creamer"s Babe New Yorker editor and baseball writer Roger Angell wrote Ruth had “at last found the biographer he deserves in Robert Creamer.” Creamer wrote seven other baseball related books, including biographies of Mickey Mantle, Casey Stengel, Ralph Houk, the sportscaster Red Barber and the umpire Jocko Conlan.
He also wrote Baseball in "41: A Celebration of the "Best Baseball Season Ever" (1991) (later published in paperback as Baseball and Other Matters in 1941).
Creamer"s lone novel, A Resemblance to Persons Living and Dead, is loosely based on politics, personages, and the environs of Tuckahoe and the town of Eastchester, New York
In retirement, Creamer occasionally wrote retrospective articles for SI and could be seen on television commenting on historical moments in sports, many of which he had covered. He also appeared in Ken Burns" documentary Baseball and numerous other television baseball programs, including When lieutenant Was a Game.
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With United States Army, 1942-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Member Authors Guild.
Married Margaret Helen Schelz, August 23, 1947. Children: James Robert, Thomas Watts, John Schelz, Ellen Margaret Sitron, Robert Andrew.