James Campbell Isaminger (December 6, 1880 – June 17, 1946) was an American sportswriter for newspapers in Philadelphia from 1905 to 1940, covering every World Series during that time.
[4] Isaminger played a major role, along with Hugh Fullerton and Ring Lardner, in breaking the story of the Black Sox scandal in 1919.
[5] In September 1940, Isaminger suffered a stroke while attending a baseball game at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland.
[3] Isaminger died in June 1946 at his home in Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania.
[7][a] In 1974, he was posthumously honored by the BBWAA with the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for distinguished baseball writing.