Bill Baab, the longtime Augusta Chronicle sports writer and editor with a sportsman’s heart and a collector’s soul, has died. He was 90.
As The Chronicle’s outdoors editor for 35 years, Baab wrote weekly newspaper columns for generations of Augusta-area anglers.
Readers followed his valued fishing information and advice almost as gospel. When Baab retired in 2000, for the first time, Waynesboro resident Tyron Morris wrote a letter to The Chronicle mourning the loss of “Reverend Bill.”…