Ed Storin

Edmund Storin was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and spent his working life at The Miami Herald, which hired him as a copy boy in 1951 and retired him forty years later as associate managing editor for sports and budget. In between he was sports clerk, sportswriter, assistant city editor and executive sports editor. That progression is a whole newspaper career in one sentence, and it is the kind of career the Red Smith Award was meant to notice alongside the columnists.

Editors leave fewer traces than writers. Nobody clips a budget meeting. What survives is the paper itself and the people who worked for him. John Rawlings, later president of the Associated Press Sports Editors, called Storin his first boss and said the effect on him had been enormous. John Cherwa, another APSE president, remembered that the words “got a minute” from Storin meant a trip to the woodshed was coming.

Storin was a founding member of the Associated Press Sports Editors when the group formed in 1974, and for years afterward he was its treasurer. Bill Eichenberger, who ran APSE in 2003–04, described him as a strong, principled leader with a dogged attention to the organization's finances. APSE inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2010 and gave him the Jack Berninger Award for meritorious service in 2019. That made him the only person to hold both the Berninger and the Red Smith Award, which he had received in 1992, the year after he left the Herald.

You always have to wear a belt and suspenders.

Storin has no Wikipedia article, and this page is shorter for it. We do not have a birth date beyond an age at death of ninety-two, and we have not seen his bylines. What is documented comes from APSE's own obituary: he retired to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, with his wife Ginny, wrote a sports column for The Island Packet there, sailed, and followed the Red Sox from a distance. He died on April 25, 2022, after sixty-nine years of marriage, survived by a daughter, three sons, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

The line about the belt and suspenders was his standing advice on preparedness, and it is about as much of his prose as the public record preserves. The 1992 citation is not online. The career above will have to stand in for it.