Lester Rodney was born on April 17, 1911 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Clare Dodge. He died on December 20, 2009 in Walnut Creek, California, USA.
While sports editor of the American Communist Party newspaper The Daily Worker, he lobbied to end segregation in major league baseball.
Sports journalist for the "Daily Worker", a newspaper published by the American Communist Party. He pushed for integration of professional baseball in the 1930s and '40s.
Sports editor and columnist for the American Communist Party newspaper the Daily Worker who crusaded to end segregation in major league baseball in the 1930s and 1940s.
During WWII, he was an Army combat medic in the Pacific.
He grew up in Brooklyn and was a die-hard Dodgers fan. He was the sports reporter for his high-school newspaper.