Hammer, Charles

About the Author Charles Hammer was born in 1934 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of warm-hearted parents. He worked his way through the University of Tulsa as a reporter and hand typesetter for the weekly West Tulsa News, news writer for KTUL radio, movie news photographer for KVOO-TV, and a carpenters helper. After U. S. Army service in Europe, he joined the Kansas City Star and did much of their reporting on the Civil Rights Movement, 1958-1972. Later he taught journalism at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is co-author of Unsportsmanlike Conduct, a critical history of collegiate sport...