november american newspaper columnist seattle washington columns ran number seattle newspapers span years initially sportswriter primarily known social commentary column moved continued columnist shortly death watson grew seattle 1920s 1930s advocate column fictional organization created called limiting seemingly growth urban renewal dramatically altered seattle landscape second half twentieth century early life childhood born seattle watson twin brother sons mother twin brother died spanish following year father unable care month old son arranged adoption long time friends john school baseball watson suffered ear infection child permanently damaged hearing attended transferring franklin catcher baseball team played future major league pitcher graduated watson enrolled played baseball head coach played briefly hit total bats blamed lack success professional baseball inability hit graduated university bachelor degree communications leaving baseball watson worked world war early writing career war watson friends produced newsletter send baseball players serving military newsletter brought attention editor defunct daily newspaper watson hired cover working star watson contracted lured watson away star continued cover sports received offer chose match initially wrote sports column pitched idea town column group restaurant owners offered partially costs producing column exchange occasional plug new column town assigned watson columnist watson new column quickly scope cover aspects life seattle city column primarily dot compilation short items running days week particular issue caught attention watson produce longer essay style column essay style columns provided fodder book life print column life watson early champion civil rights social reform anti war movement denounced urban renewal plans aimed pioneer square radically altering seattle founder leader lesser seattle parody inc advocated schemes seattle civic improvement development watson considered ill advised feeling influx outsiders primarily california city watson published tongue cheek columns suggesting ways visitors seattle feel invented fictional organization called fought influx newcomers area state reporting suicide watson received international notoriety broke story novelist suicide idaho initially incorrectly reported wife accidental shooting major_league_baseball seattle watson long time friend district judge anti trust suit major_league_baseball moved milwaukee single expansion season seattle effectiveness action proved instrumental seattle awarded growing early 1980s watson left believed treated new editor contributed paper watson criticisms owner eventually led reducing frequency column watson remembered picked paper saw column wasn managing editor called said thinking cutting column week said maybe zero columns week october hiatus decades watson column appeared columnist continued write column style known fixture seattle journalism custom continued rich powerful columns fighting kind development modernization felt destroying city knew loved years tone columns somewhat consisted old seattle november union went strike watson regular daily appearances picket lines strike wrote strike paper friend opened city bar february watson sold share business today located seattle currently owned son death march year old watson underwent surgery abdominal seattle died complications surgery accomplishments watson called contemporaries san_francisco_chronicle new_york_daily_news considered protégé wrote books including life print received published works native son isbn time seattle isbn life print isbn seattle photographer isbn
Emmett Watson