Fuzzy Woodruff
Fuzzy Woodruff | |
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| Born | Lorenzo Ferguson Woodruff May 27, 1884 Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | December 7, 1929 (aged 45) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Sportswriter |
| Alma mater | University of Alabama |
Lorenzo Ferguson "Fuzzy" Woodruff (May 27, 1884 – December 7, 1929) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known throughout most of the southeast for his vivid writing. He was also a music and drama critic. He began his newspaper career as a member of the Montgomery Advertiser in 1907. Among the newspapers he served were the Birmingham News, the Birmingham Age-Herald, the New Orleans States, the Mobile Register, the New York Evening World, the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the Chicago Examiner, the St. Louis Dispatch, the Atlanta Constitution, the Atlanta Georgian, and the Atlanta Journal.