Arn Shein was an American

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 sports writer and editor for The Daily Item (Port Chester) in New York

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 from 1949 to 1974, where he wrote a regular column titled "Spotlight on Sports". After retirement, due to severe case of psoriatic arthritis

Arthritis

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, Arn became a freelance writer in 1983 and sold about 350 articles to over 60 major magazines, including Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest

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, Modern Maturity, and Guideposts

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While working for The Daily Item, Arn interviewed sports stars of the era, such as Mickey Mantle

Mickey Mantle

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 and Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

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. He was also the ghostwriter

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 for a large portion of Rolf Benirschke

Rolf Benirschke

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's autobiography

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