In the spring of 1956, Denver Post sports editor Chuck Garrity was impressed with the newsroom copyboy’s hustle as he delivered the stock market ticker tape and wire-service copy to various departments.
Eventually, Garrity asked the young man: “Do you want to try this?”
“This” was sports writing.
Sure, Irv Moss said.
Garrity assigned Moss to cover the men’s fast-pitch softball league at City Park, which routinely drew standing-room-only crowds of more than 5,000. If the untried Moss fouled up the high-profile assignment, Garrity would hear about it.
Moss got his story in and in June 1956 became a full-fledged writer in The Post’s sports department.