Paul Hale Bruske (November 7, 1877 – September 26, 1956) was an American writer, journalist, advertising executive, and sportsman. Bruske was a baseball correspondent for Sporting Life from 1905 to 1914. He also wrote for several Michigan newspapers from 1898 to 1910. He covered the Detroit Tigers for 14 years, including their American League championship seasons of 1907, 1908, and 1909. During the 1910s, he became involved in the automobile business. In 1910, he led the "Under Three Flags" automobile expedition from Quebec City to Mexico City, and in 1911 he participated in the Glidden Tour, a cross-country automobile race. From 1914 to 1915, he managed the Maxwell automobile racing team that included Barney Oldfield and Eddie Rickenbacker. Bruske also worked in the advertising business for many years. During the 1910s, he was at different times the adverting and publicity director for four of Detroit's leading automobile manufacturers, E-M-F Company, Studebaker, Maxwell, and Harroun. In his later years, he handled the advertising accounts for Fisher Body and Firestone/Oldfield Tires. Early years Bruske was born in Charlotte, Michigan, and raised in Saginaw, Michigan. He was the son of Rev. August F. Bruske, who served as president of Alma College. Bruske attended Alma College where he was a champion tennis player and an infielder and captain of the baseball team. He graduated from Alma in 1898. Newspaper career After graduating from Alma, Bruske held reporting jobs with the Lansing State Republican, the Grand Rapids Herald, The Grand Rapids Press, and the Saginaw Evening News. While in Grand Rapids, he covered the city's Western League baseball team that featured three future inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame -- Rube Waddell, Sam Crawford, and Jake Beckley. In 1901, Bruske joined the Detroit Tribune and became the head of its sports department in 1902. He established Michigan's first Sunday sports section while he was with the Tribune. He also established Michigan's first color newspaper supplement with a green sports section at the Tribune. In 1906, Bruske moved to the Detroit Times as the sports editor. In January 1905, Bruske also became the Detroit correspondent for the Sporting Life, a national weekly founded in 1883 devoted to coverage of the sport of baseball. Bruske's baseball articles were regularly featured in Sporting Life from January 1905 through April 1914. Automobile career In May 1910, Bruske left his position as the sporting editor of the Detroit Times