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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Carroll, Austin, 1899-1991
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Description area
Dates of existence
1899-1991
History
Austin Carroll was born in Guelph in 1899. He received his LL.B. from McGill University in 1923 but never practiced law. A star football player at McGill, he made this student interest his life’s avocation. He became the traveling road secretary for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International Baseball League, worked in advertising, publishing, and pursued a career as a writer and sports journalist, publishing as a freelancer in The Montrealer, Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, The Reader's Digest, Liberty, and the Toronto Star Weekly. His columns on hockey and other sports ranging from boxing to salmon fishing appeared in the Montreal Gazette from 1941 until 1987. He died in Montreal in 1991. He also wrote fiction with sports settings. Carroll was probably the most literate Canadian sportswriter of his generation, and corresponded frequently with noted Canadian writer Morley Callaghan.