Former newsroom colleagues remembered him as the kind of eagle-eyed advocate for journalists and journalism whom they might butt heads with while in the moment-to-moment trenches of news-making but still respect the next day.
Bob Allison was born July 11, 1934, just outside Kansas City. Bob was a multi-sport athlete in high school. After high school, he enrolled at the University of Kansas on a football scholarship but also played baseball. During his college years, baseball scouts started noticing Allison in the summ.