Joe Falls

Joseph Francis Falls

• Born May 2, 1928 in New York, NY USA
• Died August 11, 2004 in Detroit, MI USA

Joe Falls, a tough talking New Yorker, came to Detroit in 1953 after an eight-year stint with the Associated Press. He wrote for three different newspapers in Detroit and also had a weekly column in The Sporting News before his retirement in 2003.

He is the author of the seminal history of the Detroit Tigers, published in 1975.

Falls won the 2001 J.G. Taylor Spink Award.