Shirley Povich

Shirley Povich covered baseball – his true passion – from Walter Johnson to Cal Ripken in a career at The Washington Post that spanned 75 years. The prolific and profound Povich covered the Washington Senator’s lone World Championship in 1924 and wrote his final column the day before his death at 92. Generations of Washington readers learned about sport and life by reading Povich’s “This Morning” column.