Ren Mulford

Ren Mulford, Jr.

Ren Mulford, Jr. was a long-time correspondent for The Sporting Life. He started with the paper in 1888, and was still writing for them in 1917. In 1888, he was already a veteran baseball reporter, having worked for the Cincinnati Gazette and the Cincinnati Enquirer even before 1884. Later he became an advertising executive and served as Vice Mayor of Norwood, OH.

His photo was featured in Sporting Life on March 14, 1908.

Mulford was the person who made the word "fan" popular. He is often credited as inventing the term, but he himself said that Ted Sullivan did.