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'''Albert 'Al' Gillis Laney''' (January 11, 1896 – January 31, 1988) was an American [[sportswriter]] who specialized in [[tennis]] and [[golf]] but also covered [[baseball]], [[boxing]] and [[American football]].<ref name=collins>{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Bud|authorlink=Bud Collins|title=The Bud Collins History of Tennis|year=2010|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=[New York]|isbn=978-0942257700|page=599|edition=2nd}}</ref>
Laney was born on January 11, 1896<ref>{{cite book|last1=Orodenker|first1=Richard|title=Twentieth Century American Sportswriters|date=1996|publisher=Gale Research Inc|isbn=978-0810399341|page=179|url=https://books.google.
After [[World War I]] Laney became a correspondent at the [[New York Evening Mail]]. In 1924 he went to Europe and joined the [[Paris Herald]], as the Paris edition of the [[New York Herald]] was known.<ref name=hof/> During his period in Europe he also started working for the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]''. In the summer months he would travel between Paris and England to cover the [[Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]] tennis tournament, the [[Davis Cup]] and the British golf tournaments. In the mid-1930s he returned to the United States to join the ''Tribune's'' sports staff. He retired when the ''Tribune'' ceased publication in 1966.<ref name=holtzman/>
In 1947 Laney published an account of the ''Paris Herald'' newspaper titled ''Paris Herald: The Incredible Newspaper'' and in 1968 he published ''Covering the Court; a 50-Year Love Affair With the Game of Tennis'', a [[memoir]] on his experience as a tennis correspondent from World War I through to the start of the Open era.<ref name=holtzman/><ref>{{cite news|author1=W.J. Hurlow|title=Under The Reading Lamp|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nf4uAAAAIBAJ
Laney was regarded as one of the leading American tennis journalists of the first half of the 20th century together with [[Allison Danzig]] of ''[[The New York Times]]''. In 1979, Laney was inducted into the [[International Tennis Hall of Fame]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]], for his contributions to tennis.<ref name=hof>{{cite web|title=Hall of Famers – Al Laney |url=https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/al-laney |website=www.tennisfame.com |publisher=[[International Tennis Hall of Fame]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007211419/http://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/al-laney |archivedate=2014-10-07 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Six Inducted Into Tennis Hall of Fame|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B2AaAAAAIBAJ
==References==
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