Michael G. Bryson (August 22, 1942 – May 22, 2012) was a news and sports reporter and editor from

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and the elder brother of travel writer

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. He co-authored a book ''The Babe Didn't Point: And Other Stories About Iowans and Sports'' with his son Michael G. Bryson Jr in 1989. He wrote '' The Twenty-Four-Inch Home Run'' in 1990. Bryson was an editor and associate publisher of the Sun Press Newspapers in Hawaii from 1979 to 1986. He covered the

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in 1969 while a sports reporter for the

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. He was a news reporter for the '' Des Moines Register and Tribune'' from 1970 to 1979. He attended

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