Donald Beard, longtime Washington Post sports copy editor, has died

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Donald Beard, a former Washington Post sports editor known for his headlines, steadfastness and unflappable aura, died Oct. 28 at Montgomery Hospice Casey House in Rockville, Maryland. He was 72.

Mr. Beard’s newspaper career began in 1975 — three years after baseball’s Washington Senators left town — and he played a central role in most of Washington’s seminal sports stories for 33 years before hanging up his spikes at age 54, five months after Nationals Park opened in 2008, to devote himself to his young family.

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