Sid Hartman, Famed Minneapolis Sports Columnist and Lakers GM, Dies at 100

Star Tribune writer covered Minnesota sports for 75 years and was a key figure in the Lakers’ first championship dynasty

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Sid Hartman, the legendary sports columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, died on Sunday at the age of 100, according to his son, Chad.

For decades, Hartman was a mainstay of the Minnesota sports media in both print and broadcast. Born in 1920, he got his start in news as a paperboy and started his own delivery service as a teen. When his service was dropped following the merger of Minneapolis’ three newspapers, one of the heads of the circulation department got him a job as a sportswriter.

Over the next two decades, Hartman rose up the ranks at the Star Tribune, first as a beat reporter for the University of Minnesota football team and later as a daily columnist.

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