Joe Falls

After an apprenticeship of eight years, Falls moved to the Detroit bureau of the AP.

His final move was to the Detroit News where he was a columnist and eventually sports editor.

When Colavito stranded a runner, Falls would give him an RNBI (Run Not Batted In).

In 2001, he won the J. G. Taylor Spink Award from the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Falls died of complications from diabetes and heart failure at age 76 in Detroit.