He was one of the charter members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America ("BBWAA") upon its founding in October 1908 and held membership card No.

He recalled that he lived for a time in Arizona while his father's regiment was assigned "to subdue an unruly group of Apaches.

His father was assigned to the Philippine Islands where he led three companies of the African-American 24th Infantry during 1899 and 1900 in combat operations against Filipino insurgents in the Pangasinan and Nueva Vizcaya provinces on Luzon.

For his service and for gallantry in action, Captain Batchelor (Brevet Major) was posthumously awarded two Silver Stars.

[2][3][4][5][6][7] While his father was serving in the Philippines, Batchelor graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1901 and enrolled at Brown University.

At the end of a year, he terminated his formal schooling (it is understood at the request of the faculty) and threw himself into full-time newspaper work.

"[1] According to another account, Batchelor's father told a fellow Army officer that he wanted his son to be a newspaperman.

[3] According to the second account, the friend in whom Batchelor's father confided returned to the United States and "rescued Eddie from an auditor's desk and found a spot for him in the sports department of the Providence Journal.

[1] He began as a general reporter in Detroit before being assigned to assist the paper's sports editor, Joe S. Jackson.

Batchelor ruled that a line drive to the shortstop by Tris Speaker was a hit, costing Cobb percentage points in the race for the American League batting championship.

Batchelor covered the game and called the replacement players "the worst bunch of clowns ever to wear major league uniforms.

"[1] He opined that the only reason the replacement Tigers scored in the 24–2 defeat was because "the Athletics were laughing so hard they couldn't field.

These sons of Erin, individually and collectively representing the University of Notre Dame, not only beat the Michigan team, but they dashed some of Michigan's fondest hopes ..."[12] Notre Dame football historian, John Kryk, later wrote: "With that flowery lead, E.A.

[19] Throughout his various advertising jobs, Batchelor was able to keep his membership in the BBWAA active by writing a monthly sports column for the Detroit Athletic Club News.

[20] In 1939, The Sporting News published a lengthy feature story on Batchelor's 30 years of covering baseball in Detroit.

The team honored Batchelor on the occasion by presenting him with a television set and driving him around the field at Tiger Stadium in a 1915 Ford Model T along with Davy Jones, a member of the outfield with Ty Cobb and the first player to face Walter Johnson in a major League game.

But before you could feel pangs of sadness at his deterioration, he'd pull you close to the bed and whisper: 'I think it's great the Lions got Munson from the Rams.