John B. Foster and the 112-Yard Field
John B. Foster was best known for his involvement in baseball as an executive with the New York Giants and later as editor of Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide. Still, he wrote extensively on football, with many columns entering syndication and publishing nationwide. As a syndicated columnist, he had the time and budget to have his articles accompanied by illustrations. — www.footballarchaeology.com
The story of a baseball and football columnist that helped change football from some newspaper references and data. Perhaps we should call him fourth down Foster
