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Joseph W. Bostic
Born(1908-03-21)March 21, 1908
Mount Holly, New Jersey
DiedMay 29, 1988(1988-05-29) (aged 80)
Long Island, New York
NationalityUnited States
EducationMorgan State College, Columbia University
Occupation(s)Journalist and Sports Announcer
ChildrenJoseph Jr., Lee, and Debra
Parent(s)Lawrence and Lillian (Eldridge) Bostic

Joseph William Bostic was an American journalist and sports announcer for multiple businesses in both Maryland and New York. He first started out as a sports announcer and journalist for the radio station WCBM in Baltimore, MD, then ended his life as the organizer of the National Negro Sportswriters Association. Unfortunately, he died at the age of 79 from a severe heart attack on Sunday, May 28, 1988 at Southampton (L.I.) Hospital in Southampton, NY. [Encyclopedia]

Personal

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Joseph Bostic was born on March 21, 1908 in Mt. Holly, NJ. He was the son of Lawrence and Lillian (Eldridge) Bostic. He married a teacher who went by the name Dorothy Mitchell in 1930. They had two children: Joseph Bostic Jr. and Debra Lee Bostic. He graduated Morgan State College (later University) in 1932 and also attended Columbia University. [Encyclopedia]

Career

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Joseph Bostic was primarily a sports announcer and journalist, but he didn’t start off with those careers. He started as a gospel music broadcaster for the radio station WCBM in Baltimore, MD after he got out of college in 1932. After that, he became a correspondent for the weekly newspaper The Baltimore Afro-American, more commonly known as The Afro. Then left Baltimore to take on a sports editor and entertainment columnist position for People’s Voice in New York, NY in 1942 from 1945. After that, he took on the role as columnist and sportswriter for New York Amsterdam News. Then after that, he got the biggest opportunity to become an announcer for boxing and other various sports events and for television broadcasts at Madison Square Garden. Then he worked as a stevedore, a theatrical promoter, and as host of Gospel Train for the New York radio station WLIB. In 1965, Bostic became the cofounder of the Junior Academy in Brooklyn, NY and wrapped things up in his careers as the organizer of the National Negro Sportswriters Association. [New York Times]

Notable works of journalism

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New York
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Joseph Bostic worked for the National Negro Sportswriters Association in Brooklyn, New York.

Newspaper columns included “Weekly Salute,” “Man about Harlem,” and “Scoreboard.”

Impact

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Joseph Bostic broke the “color” barrier in job after job. When the Rockland Palace opened in Harlem, the owners had their hearts set on hiring a white announcer until Bostic pointed out the advantage of having someone from the black community announce the matches.

Books

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  • Cosgrove, Benedict, Covering the Bases: The Most Unforgettable Moments in Baseball in the Words of the Writers and Broadcasters Who Were There, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA), 1997.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 241: American Sportswriters and Writers on Sport, Gale (Detroit, MI), 2001.

Reisler, Jim, editor, Black Writers/Black Baseball: An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportswriters Who Covered the Negro Leagues, McFarland (Jefferson, NC), 1994, pp. 75-76.

See also

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Temporary urls

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  • encyclopedia[3]
  • The Joe Bostic story[4]
  • soundstudiesblog[5]

Jackie Robinson

Other black sportswriters

  • Black Writers/Black Baseball: An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportwriters Who Covered the Negro Leagues[17]

Gospel Train

  • Copyright records[17]

Son

Look up his Jet magazine obit Jet Magazine obituary, June 20, 1988, pp. 50.

References

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  1. ^ Rogers, Thomas (June 2, 1988). "Joseph Bostic, 79, A Sports Journalist And a Disk Jockey". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Wiggins, David K. (2015-03-26). African Americans in Sports. Routledge. ISBN 9781317477440.
  3. ^ "Bostic, Joe 1908-1988 | Encyclopedia.com".
  4. ^ Hiss, George L. (2006). The Joe Bostic Story: First Black American Radio Announcer. AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781420860771.
  5. ^ "Joe Bostic | Sounding Out!".
  6. ^ "Marc Norton Online".
  7. ^ "Sam Lacy: Black Crusader".
  8. ^ "The Jackie Robinson Story: Ken Burns Documentary Captures the Man and the Movement". The American Prospect.
  9. ^ "Jackie Robinson and the Press". HuffPost. 2013-04-10.
  10. ^ "Going to Bat for Robinson". Washington Post. 1997-06-11.
  11. ^ Lipsyte, Robert (1983-08-07). "Playing the Game They Loved". The New York Times.
  12. ^ "That Time Jackie Robinson Was a Columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier".
  13. ^ Luke, Bob (2011-03-31). The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues. Potomac Books. ISBN 9781597975469.
  14. ^ Falkner, David (1996-02-06). Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson from Baseball to Birmingham. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780684823485.
  15. ^ Orodenker, Richard (2005). The Phillies Reader. Temple University Press. ISBN 9781592133987.
  16. ^ Kelly, John (2005). "Integrating America: Jackie Robinson, critical events and baseball black and white". The International Journal of the History of Sport. 22 (6): 1011–1035. doi:10.1080/09523360500286742.
  17. ^ a b "Journal-ISMS: SPORTSWRITING PIONEERS - ProQuest". ProQuest. Cite error: The named reference "A" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  18. ^ "Obituary for Joseph W. Bostic, Jr. At J. Foster Phillips Funeral Home, Inc".
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