Lamar Wayne Minshew (June 9, 1936 – April 29, 2015) was a journalist and minor league baseball player.
He set the school's record for lowest earned run average in a season in 1957, when he posted a mark of 1.02.
From 1959 to 1965, he wrote for The Americus Times and the Jacksonville Journal before embarking on a career with the Atlanta Constitution in 1966.
[3] He became the Atlanta Braves' first beat writer and also contributed to The Sporting News.
[2][4] Wayne Minshew has a whole chapter devoted to him in the book, "Keepers of the Game: When the Baseball Beat was the Best Job on the Paper" which celebrates the last generation of baseball writers whose careers were rooted in Teletype machines, train travel, and ten-team leagues.