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"He's the one who invented the baseball all-star game and then they say, 'let's have a football all-star game.'" -Upton Bell

Arch Ward, the sports editor of the Chicago Tribune between 1930 and 1955, was an innovative sportswriter and promoter who helped shape football history and the modern NFL. Born in Irwin, Illinois in 1896, Ward – who created Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game and the Golden Gloves boxing tournament – founded the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1946 as a rival to the NFL. While it lasted just four seasons, three of its teams, the Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, and Baltimore Colts moved to the NFL in 1950. Ward also created the Chicago College All-Star Game, an annual preseason battle between the defending NFL champions and a top team of recently-graduated college players. The game, which was first played at Soldier Field in Chicago in 1934, was usually won by the professional team and lasted about four decades.

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Long before the movie version, Arch Ward created a field of dreams. His was called “The Game of the Century,” and the Tribune’s sports editor based it on a perennial fantasy of baseball fans:

If Sweetbread Bailey was pitching and Babe Ruth was batting, who would prevail?

The question was as frustrating as it is fascinating. One played in the National League, the other in the American League, and they never crossed base paths unless in a World Series.

But Ward’s imagination conceived a means to settle such puzzlers: a contest pitting the best players of each league during a World’s Fair celebrating Chicago’s 100th birthday.

“A smart inspiration in the Tribune’s sporting department will give Chicago as an incident of the Fair, the baseball game of all time,” the paper reported on May 23, 1933. “The baseball managements could have found a million reasons why it could not be done but found every reason why it should be.”

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1973-Arch Ward

Born in Irwin, Illinois, on December 27, 1896, sportswriter Arch Ward is most famous for the sporting events he created. These include baseball’s All-Star Game; football’s College All-Star Game, which pitted graduated college stars against the reigning NFL champions; and boxing’s Golden Gloves. Ward began his career, in 1920, as Notre Dame’s first Sports Publicity Director, before becoming the Sports editor of the Rockford Star in 1921, a position he held until 1925 when he joined the Chicago Tribune as a sportswriter. Then in 1930, he became sports editor of theTribune, a position he held until his death in 1955. During his time as editor, he also wrote a column called “In the Wake of the News.” In addition to his work in newspapers, Ward also wrote a number of books including The New Chicago White Sox, Frank Leahy and the Fighting Irish, and The Green Bay Packers. Ward was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame on April 3, 1973.