Dave Newhouse

Biography

Dave Newhouse chronicled Bay Area sports history through five decades of award-winning journalism, establishing himself as one of Oakland's most beloved sportswriters while authoring 19 books that preserved forgotten athletic lore. Born in 1938 in Menlo Park, California at the tail end of the Depression, Newhouse grew up as the son of an abusive alcoholic father, developing an early fantasy of becoming a sportscaster despite uncertain prospects.

After graduating from Menlo-Atherton High School and attending Santa Rosa Junior College, Newhouse joined the Air Force in 1957 for a four-year stint. While stationed in Laon, France, he covered his first baseball game for the weekly base newspaper,...