John McCallum (author)
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John Dennis McCallum (born 1924) was a sportswriter, as well as a writer on strength training topics.
As a sportswriter, McCallum wrote books on a variety of topics. One of his most famous works is The Tiger Wore Spikes, a biography of baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb (A.S. Barnes, 1956).
In strength training, McCallum is most famous for his Keys to Progress magazine series, which ran in Strength & Health magazine from 1965 to 1972. The series has has been collected and republished by IronMind as the book The Complete Keys to Progress. Reprints of McCallum's columns have been a regular feature in Milo since October, 1993.
McCallum died on September 21, 1989.
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- Strossen, Randall J., Milo, October, 1993.