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May 7, 2014 · Bill Nunn Jr., a black sports reporter for The Pittsburgh Courier, could not sit in the press box at Forbes Field three years after Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But on a...
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May 23, 2014 · One scene that repeated itself over and over in my head was an encounter that Pittsburgh Tribune-Review sports columnist John Harris and I had bumping into Mr. Nunn one afternoon several years ago descending the stairs at the Steelers practice facility on Pittsburgh’s South Side as we were on our way up to the media … Continued
Baseball History Daily. Contact; Tag Archives: Bill Nunn Jr. Segregation and Spring Training, 1961 11 Apr.
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Jackie Robinson. Muhammad Ali. Roberto Clemente. Joe Louis. As a journalist, Nunn covered them all. He always knew how to read, study and connect with athletes. After all, he was one himself. He was a basketball player at West Virginia State who had the opportunity to sign with the Harlem Globetrotters. But he would forgo a sports career to follow ...
Nunn scrutinized the prospect standing before him, deducing Brandon Hunt’s entire backstory within seconds. “Oh, here we go,” Nunn said, donning a white Starter Steelers tracksuit and yellow Oakley shades indoors. “Another reject coming to work for us.” It was the summer of 2005 and Hunt was just beginning his scouting internship with Pittsburgh. A...
They all assumed there would be more rides. More talks. More laughs. Nunn had walked the hallways of the Steelers facility for decades, befriending and advising generations of Rooneys, personnel scouts and players. For so long, he had been the guy behind the scenes. The gravelly voice in the back of the room. And no one could picture the building w...
Former Pittsburgh Steelers executive Bill Nunn wasn’t just one of the first African-American scouts in NFL history. He was also one of pro football’s greatest innovators. Nunn wrote his annual Black College All-America team for the Pittsburgh Courier from 1950 until 1969.
Feb 17, 2021 · Bill Nunn Jr. was just elected to the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame's Class of 2021. So who was he? Keep reading. Clark Judge. Updated: Feb 17, 2021 2:43 PM EST. Original: Feb 17, 2021. Bill Nunn photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Jul 31, 2021 · Greene did not know them. They were Steelers scout Bill Nunn and a scout friend from the Lions who had entered Greene’s unlocked off-campus abode.
