Harold Kaese

Kaese was born in 1909 in Philadelphia,^[1] grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts, and graduated from Lynn English High School where he excelled at basketball and baseball.^[2] He graduated magna cum laude from Tufts College in 1933,^[2] where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi fraternity.^{[citation needed]} During the 1940s to 1960s, he won several squash championships at the state and national levels.^[3]

Kaese worked for the Boston Evening Transcript from 1933 to 1941, and then for The Boston Globe until 1973.^[4] He covered both the Boston Braves and the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB), retiring after the 1973 World Series.^[3] His writing was also published in various periodicals, including The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated.^[3] He wrote a book on the history of Boston's National League team, entitled The Boston Braves, 1871–1953.^[3]

Kaese died at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on May 10, 1975; he had checked in to the hospital the day before, complaining of chest pains.^[2] He was survived by his wife.^[2][3] His funeral was attended by representatives of The Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox, Boston Bruins, and The Jimmy Fund; he was buried in Peabody, Massachusetts.^[5]

Kaese was honored (along with Red Smith) with the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) in December 1976.^[4]

• Kaese, Harold (October 15, 1967). "Conig's Return Key to '68 Sox". The Boston Globe. p. 59. Retrieved February 27, 2021 – via newspapers.com.