Bert Sugar

Sugar was born in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 1936. His father was Jewish and he believed that his mother was descended from the Randolph family of Virginia. Sugar graduated from the University of Maryland in 1957 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He then entered the University of Michigan, where he earned MBA and JD degrees while playing rugby and writing for The Michigan Daily. He passed the bar in Washington, D.C. in 1961, but never practiced law. ==Career==

After passing the bar, Sugar worked in advertising, including for McCann Erickson. His first sports venture was as editor-publisher of Baseball Monthly magazine in 1962, started with the assistance of Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell, whom Sugar met while at the University of Michigan. Sugar bought Boxing Illustrated magazine in 1969 and was editor until 1973. From 1979 to 1983 he was editor and publisher of The Ring magazine. He also wrote on other subjects: horse racing, a biography of Harry Houdini, and several books of trivia and statistics. In 2009, he published ''Bert Sugar's Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of America's Greatest Game''. Sugar appeared in several films as himself, including Night and the City, The Great White Hype, and Rocky Balboa. ==Personal life and death==

In 1960, Sugar married Suzanne Davis, a fellow University of Michigan graduate, and they raised a son and a daughter together. Sugar died of a heart attack on March 25, 2012, at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York, aged 75. At the time of his death, he had also been suffering from lung cancer. ==References==