ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Joe Strauss, a sports columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who covered baseball for nearly three decades, has died. He was 54.
Post-Dispatch sports editor Roger Hensley told The Associated Press that Strauss's wife called him early Sunday to say Strauss had died that day at a St. Louis hospital from complications related to leukemia.
Strauss, who joined the newspaper in 2002, became a sports columnist in 2012. He previously wrote for the Baltimore Sun and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Post-Dispatch reported (http://bit.ly/1Otu7fi ).
''Joe was certainly capable of writing a column that would pull at your heartstrings, and did so on many occasions,'' Hensley said.