Detroit Free Press
For Detroit Free Press readers of a certain age, Ken Kraemer was an unknown but critical cog in delivering their daily sports fix.
To his co-workers, spanning the middle 1950s to the early 2000s, Kraemer was “an old-school, big-hearted, hard-assed classic,” “a pro’s pro” and “one of a kind” with “high standards with a low tolerance for BS,” according to numerous social media tributes.
Kenneth Lee Kraemer, born in 1936 and raised on Detroit’s east side, worked for the Free Press for more than four decades. Nearly all his career was spent in the sports department, though he started as a copy boy running errands while in college, reviewed a Beatles concert and worked for a spell in what were then called the women’s pages, as the only male on that staff.
Kraemer died Nov. 7 at age 89 after
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