Richard Schaap was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.
Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and raised in Free port, New York, on Long Island, Schaap began writing a sports column at age 14 for the weekly newspaper Free port Leader, but the next year he obtained a job with the daily newspaper The Nassau Daily Review-Star working for Jimmy Breslin. He would later follow Breslin to the Long Island Press and New York Herald Tribune.
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