Arthur John Daley (July 31, 1904 – January 3, 1974) was an Americansports journalist. As areporter andcolumnist, he wrote forThe New York Times for almost fifty years. In 1956, he was awarded aPulitzer Prize for reporting and commentary.

Arthur Daley was born on July 31, 1904, inNew York City.^[1] He attendedFordham Preparatory School and continued his education atFordham University.^[1] He was a multifaceted athlete, participating in baseball, basketball, football, swimming, and track.^[2] He wrote for the university newspaper,The Fordham Ram, and served as its sports editor in his senior year.^[2]

After graduating in 1926, Daley was hired almost immediately as a field reporter forThe New York Times,^[1] and for the rest of his life the newspaper would be "his one and only employer".^[3] Among his first major assignments was the 1927 heavyweight championship boxing match betweenGene Tunney andJack Dempsey – the infamous "Long Count Fight".^[2] He reported from the1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and when he was chosen to repeat that role at the1936 Olympics in Berlin, he became the firstTimes correspondent to be sent overseas for a sports assignment.^[2] In later years, Daley covered Olympics in Rome, Tokyo, Mexico City and Munich.^[2]

In 1942, he succeededJohn Kieran as the sports columnist for theTimes, a position he held for the next 32 years.^[2] As the daily writer of "Sports ofThe Times", he composed over 10,000 columns,^[4] with an estimated 20 million words.^[3] He also authored numerous books, including a collaboration with Kieran calledThe Story of the Olympic Games.^[3]

His writing earned him aPulitzer Prize in 1956 for "outstanding coverage and commentary on the world of sports"^[5] in the category of"Local Reporting, No Edition Time".^[1] TheNational Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association named him "Sportswriter of the Year" in 1963,^[6] and inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 1976.^[7] Beginning in 1969, he served on the board of directors of thePro Football Writers Association,^[8] and was a recipient of itsDick McCann Memorial Award.^[9] In 1972 he was inducted into the Fordham University Athletic Hall of Fame.^[10]

With his wife Betty, Daley lived inOld Greenwich, Connecticut; the couple had four children and fifteen grandchildren.^[2] A son, Robert, and a granddaughter,Suzanne, followed in Daley's footsteps by also working as writers for theTimes.^[3]

Daley died of a heart attack on January 3, 1974, onWest 42nd Street as he walked toward hisTimes Square office.^[2] With a crowd of sporting world celebrities in attendance, his Roman Catholic funeral Mass was held atSt. Patrick's Cathedral.^[4] He is interred atGate of Heaven Cemetery inHawthorne, New York.^[2]

Daley was the author of several books, including^[3]

• The Story of the Olympic Games, with John Kieran (1941; r.1977)
• Times At Bat: A Half Century of Baseball (1950)^[11]
• Kings of the Home Run (1962)
• Pro Football's Hall of Fame (1965)
• Sports of the Times: the Arthur Daley years, collected columns (1975)

• 1904 births
• 1974 deaths
• Fordham Preparatory School alumni
• Fordham University alumni
• Sportswriters from New York (state)
• Writers from New York City
• People from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
• 20th-century American non-fiction writers
• Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners
• Burials at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
• The New York Times journalists
• Bill Nunn Memorial Award recipients

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