Mercer, Sid, 1881 - 1945.
Mercer was raised on an Illinois farm and attended Dixon College for two years. He was a baseball writer for the St. Louis Republic and Post-Dispatch when he was hired by the St. Louis Browns as road secretary in 1906. A year later he joined the New York Evening Globe. Mercer was one of the founders and became president of the BBWAA in 1940. He was with the New York Journal-American when he died in 1945. He was posthumously awarded the J.G. Taylor Spink Award by the Hall of Fame in 1969. Source used www.baseballlibrary.com.
From the description of Sid Mercer Scorebooks : scorebook 1940 - 1944. (National Baseball Hall of Fame). WorldCat record id: 712592624
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