found: His The Blackie Sherrod collection, c1988:CIP galley (newspaper columnist; before, Dallas times herald; now, Dallas morning news)
found: LC data base, 12/7/87(hdg.: Sherrod, Blackie)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed May 5, 2016(in obituary published Apr. 30: Blackie Sherrod; b. William Forrest Sherrod, Nov. 9, 1919, on a farm in Bell County, Tex., near Belton; a football coach at Howard Payne University, noting his black hair and dark complexion, gave him the nickname Blackie, which he did not like but decided to use after an editor told him that readers would remember it; d. Thursday [Apr. 28, 2016], Dallas, aged 96; sportswriter and editor who endeared himself to his Texas readers with a Southern strain of Runyonesque erudition, and to generations of younger reporters with his curmudgeonly mentoring)
found: The great American sports page, 2019:page ix (Blackie Sherrod (1919-2016))
found: Wikipedia web site, August 31, 2019:((William Forrest "Blackie" Sherrod, November 9, 1919-April 28, 2016) was an American journalist and sportswriter ; Sherrod attended Baylor University for the 1937-1938 academic year, but transferred to Howard Payne University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in May 1941. He was the color analyst with Bill Mercer on Dallas Cowboys radio broadcasts on KLIF-AM from 1967 to 1969)