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Mar 16, 2001 · Phil Berger, a sportswriter, screenwriter and author who specialized in boxing, has died. Berger died Monday of colon cancer at his home in the Queens borough of New York. He was 58.
Mar 14, 2001 · Phil Berger, a sportswriter, author and screenwriter, died on Monday at his home in Jackson Heights, Queens. He was 58. The cause of death was colon cancer, said Veronica Vera, his companion.
Phil Berger was a sportswriter, author and screenwriter. He died of colon cancer on March 12, 2001, at the age of 58. Berger was a boxing reporter for the New York Times from 1986 to 1992 and was named "Boxing Writer of the Year" by the World Boxing Association in 1987. He authored more than a dozen books, including:
NEW YORK – Phil Berger, a sports writer, screenwriter and author who specialized in boxing, died Monday of cancer. He was 59. Berger authored more than a dozen books on sports and entertainment, including collaborating with heavyweight champions Joe Frazier and Larry Holmes on their autobiographies.
Phil Berger was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Price of Glory (2000), Roc (1991) and The Great Standups (1984). He died on 12 March 2001 in Queens, New York, USA.
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Mar 14, 2001 · NEW YORK -- Phil Berger, a sports writer and screenwriter, died Monday of cancer. He was 59. Berger wrote more than a dozen books on sports and entertainment, including collaborative...
Phil Berger. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 - Art - 464 pages. The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the standup comic, from the classic...
