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- Birth nameJames Sidney Mercer
- Sid Mercer was born in 1881 in Champaign County, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Oh, Baby! (1926). He died in 1945.
- Wrote for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York Evening Globe, New York Evening Journal, and New York American (later Journal-American). He worked at the latter until his death.
- Road secretary for the St. Louis Browns in 1906.
- Noted boxing authority.
- Recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award (presented to a writer for meritorious contributions to baseball writing) in 1969.
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