Dr. William E. Brandt

A practicing osteopathic physician, Dr. Brandt succeeded Ford Frick as manager of the NL Service Bureau and held the job for ten years until he resigned to do a daily radio show, “The Inside of Sports.” A graduate of Muhlenberg College, he began with the Philadelphia Record in 1912, and worked for the Bulletin and Ledger in that city and the New York Times before going to work for the NL. He wrote for several magazines and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A 1921 graduate of Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, he was president of the school from 1953 to 1958.