George Beahon wrote more than 5,200 sports columns during nearly a 50-year career for Rochester’s Gannett papers. Author Curt Gerling, in his 1957 book Smugtown, U.S.A., called Beahon “the poor man’s Red Smith.” Smith worked for the New York Herald Tribune and later the New York Times. Many people — even the 84-year-old Beahon — […]
