John Warren Underwood (November 25, 1934 – April 12, 2023) was an American sportswriter who spent most of his career with Sports Illustrated magazine.
At school, his classmate and close friend was Don Wright, later a two-time Pulitzer Prize cartoonist.
[2] While attending university, Underwood began working at the Miami Herald.
Additionally, he also covered boxing, golf, baseball and professional football, as well as the impact of gambling on sports, players and fans.
[3] Underwood met Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams in the Florida Keys while writing a profile about the Hall of Famer's life in retirement as an expert fisherman.
[2] Underwood wrote about their months long interview sessions in the editor's note of the first installment: "We got along fine.