His Morning Briefings Just Won’t Be the Same Without Reading ‘Ace’
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The sportswriting profession is long on cynicism but short on wit. Chalk up another severe loss for wit as a result of the death this week of Harley (Ace) Tinkham, who wrote the Morning Briefing column in The Times.
His succinct style and keen eye for humorous quotes and anecdotes guaranteed a chuckle or two every morning. I’d like to say the column I began writing a year ago for the San Francisco Chronicle, “Top of the Sixth,” was influenced by Tinkham’s writing. Direct steal, is more like it.
The readers of The Times, as well as his friends in and out of journalism, will remember the smiles he gave us, while we mourn his passing.
TOM FITZGERALD
San Francisco
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