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Brooks, Noah (1830–1903)| US journalist. A close adviser to President Abraham Lincoln, he later became editor of the New York Tribune and New York Times 1871–84. He also wrote two of the earliest boys' novels about baseball, The Fairport Nine (1880), and Our Base Ball Club (1884). |
| He was born in Castine, Maine, but moved west and cofounded a California paper, The Daily Appeal (1860). He became Washington correspondent of the Sacramento Union. |
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