Russell baker obituary

Russell baker bodybuilder
Russell baker lawyer
Russell baker artist

•

ABOUT

Lord Russell is an enormously respected figure amongst many of the leading professional sportsmen and women in such diverse sports as football, snooker, cricket, boxing and darts.

Some of the famous names he has worked with include ex-Ipswich Town, Glasgow Rangers and England captain Terry Butcher, plus former England Internationals Terry Fenwick and Tony Dorigo, former world snooker champions Steve Davis, Judd Trump and Ronnie O’Sullivan, World Boxing Lightweight Champion Billy Schwer, as well as five more former world champions in Peter Wright, Adrian Lewis, John Lowe, Eric Bristow and Keith Deller from the world of professional darts.

In business, Lord Russell is an entrepreneur, writer and official journalist, podcast talk show host and media guru.

Yet Lord Russell does not settle at arranging events for others to take part in whilst he naturally slips into the role of host and MC for the evening. He is a very keen runner and cyclist and has taken part and completed many 10K runs and marathons for the sole purpose of raising even more funds for some of the great caus

•

Growing Up

September 12, 2017

For the solar eclipse last month, my family traveled to the friendly little town of Benton, KY, which was in the path of totality. I love to visit the public library wherever I may be, so that was our first stop. I was drawn like a magnet to a few shelves set aside for an ongoing book sale. Hardbacks were a quarter, paperbacks just a dime. Well, you can't beat those prices! One of my treasures was the autobiography "Growing Up" by Russell Baker, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983. I know I read it all those years ago, but it was so long ago, my only memory was of an engaging read. So, I read it again----and that is something I seldom do. (I have so very many books to read, I don't usually re-read, no matter how much I may have liked a book.) My memory had not been wrong---the book was just as delightful as I recalled. Mr. Baker (who is apparently still alive, now 92 years old) was born in 1925, just a year before my mother. These were children who grew up during the Depression and those experiences colored the rest of their lives. Mr. Baker's

•

Baker was born on August 14, 1925, in Loudoun County. His father, Benjamin, was a stonemason who died in a diabetic coma when Baker was five, leaving the family in poverty. Baker and his mother, Lucy Baker, moved to New Jersey to live with her brother. They were forced to live on the generosity of relatives until his mother remarried when Baker was a teenager.

Always an excellent student, Baker won a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University, but he left after one year to join the U.S. Navy Air Force in 1943. World War II (1939–1945) ended before he saw combat, so Baker returned to Johns Hopkins, graduated in 1947, and began a career as a journalist with the Baltimore Sun. From 1953 until 1954, Baker was the Sun‘s London bureau chief. In 1954, he returned to the United States and became the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for the New York Times. He left this position in 1962 and began to write the acclaimed “Observer” column for the Times. The column appeared three times a week for more than three decades, making it one of the longest-running columns ever.