- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMary Ellen Garber
- Nickname
- Miss Mary
- Mary Garber was born on April 19, 1916 in New York City, New York, USA. She died on September 21, 2008 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
- Was the only woman to win sports journalism's highest honor, the Red Smith Award given annually by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
- She was a sports writer for the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel from 1946 through 1997.
- She started out as a society writer. When the all-male sports department was depleted during WWII, she moved to that section.
- She was determined to continue covering sports after the war, even though she was not allowed to sit in the press boxes at games. She was allowed in a men's locker room for the first time at the 1974 Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament.
- She was president of the Football Writers Association of America, which had initially denied her membership.
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