New York magazine founder Clay Felker dies at 82

Clay Felker RIP: Former statistician for the New York Giants baseball team, broke the Casey Stengel is a drunk story and, I’m not quite sure on the timing of this...brought total SLOB’s Allen Barra and George Ignatin to the Village Voice.

Clay Schuette Felker was born Oct. 25, 1925, in St. Louis. Journalism was baked into his genetic code, as his father was managing editor of the Sporting News and his mother an editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He graduated from Duke University in 1951. In 1954, he was part of a team that developed Sports Illustrated. 

...His first journalism job out of college was as a sports writer at Life magazine, where he got the scoop on a Brooklyn Dodgers scouting report of the New York Yankees that highlighted Joe DiMaggio’s ailing arm.

“Weird. He was weird and delightful,” said Michael Lewis, the best-selling author who lives in Berkeley and wrote for Mr. Felker’s Manhattan, Inc. magazine. “He had an inchoate enthusiasm that overwhelmed everything. His hunches were unbelievably good.”