Harry Edward Cross (September 9, 1881 – April 3, 1946) was an American sports writer and editor.[1]
Cross was regarded[2] as one of the most accomplished sports journalist in New York City for more than three decades. He was a specialized expert in writing about baseball, boxing and football, and was also an authority in lesser known sports as curling, figure skating, polo and rowing. Excepting golf and tennis, he was assigned to cover almost every major event, becoming a familiar figure at the Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden, as well as at other sports venues.[2]
Cross became sports editor of the Evening Post in 1920, but returned to the Times from 1924 through 1926. He then joined the sports staff of the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine in 1926, where he remained until 1945. He was briefly the sports editor at the Tribune in 1927, and exclusively covered baseball from 1942 to 1945.[2]
A few months after his death, Harry Cross was one of 12 writers who were honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame on a Roll of Honor in its Class of 1946.[4]