John Lake (journalist)

[1][3] The Binghamton News Press hired both John Lake and his wife in 1952, and he worked in sports while she wrote features.

[citation needed] Lake was hired as a ghost writer for Bob Gibson's autobiography and had all but submitted the work.

[3] Years after, a police officer from missing persons showed his son a February 1968 photo of a corpse who closely resembled Lake but could not be positively identified.

[citation needed] Mario Andretti, auto race driver, called him the most prepared journalist from the national media that ever interviewed him.

[citation needed] Bert Sugar, boxing raconteur, recalls it was John Lake that moved press conferences from showmanship to seriousness with a single question.