Donald Saltz

In rural Crisfield, Md., he dreamed of being a newspaperman and headed to Washington and worked for the Star, Washington Daily News and the Baltimore Evening Sun as well as television and radio stations, where he was a business reporter and editor.
Working on the night shift at one point and answering callers' requests for information, he developed a love for trivia that turned into a trivia game that ran in several papers -- and still runs in the Buffalo News. Readers answer questions such as: "Will an ice cube in a glass of water raise the water level when the ice melts?" (No). He also invented a trivia board game and wrote trivia books.


In the 1970s, Saltz pushed to bring a professional minor league baseball team to Washington -- from Montreal (he was ahead of his time), but the plan fizzled for lack of local support.

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Photo: Bill O'leary -- The Washington Post 
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