[2] In November 1901, Jackson was hired to replace Ray M. Ziegler as the sporting editor of the Detroit Free Press,[2] a position he held until 1910.

He covered Michigan Wolverines football in the era of Fielding H. Yost's "Point-a-Minute" teams and the Detroit Tigers during the early years of Ty Cobb's career in Major League Baseball.

[10] The organization was established at a meeting held at the Pontchartrain Hotel in Detroit, Michigan, on October 14, 1908, following the 1908 World Series.

[15] Edgar Guest, known as the "People's Poet", began his writing career with the Detroit Free Press in the early 1900s.

The game goes on!Before the march of time all champions fall.Now those he lavished praise and help uponOnly the dusty record books recall.