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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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“At Mrs. Gibson’s place, the Negro players have basic comfort and ‘eat high on the hog’ as the saying goes. Yet, they sleep two to a room; queue up for use of the two bathrooms and sometime bicker over the choice of a television program on the single set in the living room.”
Aug 12, 2021 · But year after year, the people that make the decisions and vote who gets into the Hall of Fame consistently fumbled the ball, because when Bill Nunn Jr. was alive, he also did his job. It’s a shame that Mr. Nunn didn’t get the chance to unveil his own bust.
Sep 12, 2020 · News flash—the late Bill Nunn Jr., arguably the most successful athletic scout from any professional sports league, is now an eligible finalist as a candidate to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a contributor. He will be profiled during the pregame program.
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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...
Aug 5, 2021 · Nunn, who died in 2014 at 89, became the first Black scout and front office executive in the N.F.L. when the Pittsburgh Steelers hired him in 1967 to help recruit players from historically Black...
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The group chose Romeo Dougherty of The New York Amsterdam News, Frank (Fay) Young of The Chicago Defender, W. Rollo Wilson and Bill Nunn of The Courier, and John Howe, the editor of The Philadelphia Tribune; Howe had died 12 years earlier.
