For more than two decades Jimmy Powers was sports editor of the New York Daily News, one of the most widely read newspapers in the United States. During his years as editor, a post he assumed in 1935, Powers presided over an illustrious staff that included Dick Young, Joe Trimble, Gene Ward, Jim McCulley, and cartoonists Leo "the Lion" O'Mealia and Bill Gallo. Additionally, Powers supplanted Paul Gallico as the top sports columnist on his paper. He was the highly opinionated and endlessly controversial author of "The Powerhouse," a popular column that ran in the paper six times per week for decades (and which he continued authoring after his 1957 retirement as sports editor of the Daily News). Like Young, who succeeded him as the foremost columnist of the paper, Powers wielded much authority and influence on the New York sports scene. As his colleague Gallo observed in an unpublished...