Leonard Koppett

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Leonard Koppett

• Born September 15, 1923 in Moscow, Russia
• Died June 22, 2003 in San Francisco, CA USA

Len Koppett was an award winning sportswriter based in New York. He moved from Russia to New York as a boy. He was educated at Columbia University.

During a 55 year career, Koppett worked for several papers. His longest stints were 19 years with The Sporting News and 15 years with the New York Times. For the last decade of his life, he wrote strictly freelance pieces.

Koppett won the 1992 J.G. Taylor Spink Award. He also received the Curt Gowdy Award from the Basketball Hall of Fame. The only writer honored by both the Baseball and Basketball Halls of Fame.