Ray Kelly (sportswriter)
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Sports journalism
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who worked 50 years for the Philadelphia Bulletin
Philadelphia Bulletin
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. He covered the Philadelphia Athletics from 1948 to 1955 and the Philadelphia Phillies
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from 1956 until he retired in 1979.
A president of both the Philadelphia and national chapters of the Baseball Writers Association of America
Baseball Writers Association of America
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, Kelly was a posthumous recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award at the 1989 induction ceremonies at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
Cooperstown, New York
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. The Philadelphia Old Timers' Soccer Association inducted Kelly into its Hall of Fame in 1985.
He died at age 74 at Nazareth Hospital in Philadelphia and was cremated.