HoF Earl Lawson, dead at 79

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this, from espn:

Earl Lawson, who covered the Cincinnati Reds for 34 years and was inducted into the writers' wing of the baseball Hall of Fame, has died of cancer. He was 79.

Lawson became the full-time baseball writer for the Cincinnati Times-Star in 1951. He kept the beat when The Cincinnati Post bought the newspaper in 1958, and retired from the Post in 1984.

He received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 1986, when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Lawson moved to Sacramento, Calif., two years ago to live with his daughter. He died there Tuesday night.