Bill Hodge

Bill Hodge was a former sportswriter and sports editor of the Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon who greatly expanded the sports coverage of the papers. 

A former amateur boxer, Hodge took the name of his column, “In This Corner,” from that sport. The column ran five days a week. 

Hodge was an avid supporter of the National Baseball Congress and baseball in general. He retired at the age of 60 and died in 2002, at the age of 81.