Glenn Guzzo still rolling the dice

Former Beacon Journal managing editor Glenn Guzzo was quoted in a New York Times article Monday about a weekend gathering of Strat-O-Matic Baseball devotees in celebration of the table-top game's 50th anniversary.

Guzzo, the Beacon Journal M.E. for six years in the 1990s, is an authority on the dice-and-card game, having played it for almost all of its existence, and even writing a book on the pastime, "Strat-O-Matic Fantatics." He also writes a column and answers questions on a Strat-O-Matic website.

“Like Othello or chess, you can learn the game swiftly, but you’ll never tire of the strategies,” Guzzo said in the Times.

Guzzo left the Beacon Journal in 1999 to become editor of the Denver Post, a job he held until 2002. He later was an adjunct journalism professor at the University of North Florida and co-authored a college textbook, "Writing and Reporting the News as a Story."

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