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==At the sports desk==

==At the sports desk==

Byrd began with ''The Shreveport Journal'' at a salary of $35 to $40 per week, an amount his family thought huge in that day.<ref name=rbrown>{{cite web|url=http://bossierpress.com/opinion-working-with-jerry-byrd/|title=http://bossierpress.com/opinion-working-with-jerry-byrd/|title=Opinion: Working with Jerry Byrd|date=November 26, 2014|publisher=''Bossier Press-Tribune''|author=Randy Brown (publisher of the ''The Press-Tribune'')|accessdate=April 24, 2016}}</ref> He wrote a column for 2,131 consecutive editions of ''The Shreveport Journal'', excluding vacations and interrupted by a bout with gallstones but long enough to match [[Lou Gehrig]]'s [[New York Yankees]] consecutive-game streak from 1925 to 1939. Byrd was ''The Journal'' sports editor beginning in 1970 for nearly  twenty-one of his thirty-four years with the publication. Afterwards, he wrote in 1991 and 1992 for the ''Minden Press-Herald'' in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in Webster Parish<ref>"Byrd named sports editor", ''Minden Press-Herald'', June 30, 1991, p. 1.</ref>  and the ''Bossier Press-Tribune'' in Bossier City from 1993 to 2012.<ref name=ktbs>{{cite web|url=http://www.ktbs.com/story/31788185/iconic-shreveport-sports-journalist-jerry-byrd-sr-passes-away|title=Iconic Shreveport sports journalist Jerry Byrd, Sr., passes away|date=April 21, 2016|publisher=KTBS-TV|accessdate=April 22, 2016}}</ref> He continued his column ''The Press-Tribune'' until 2013.

Byrd began with ''The Shreveport Journal'' at a salary of $35 to $40 per week, an amount his family thought huge in that day.<ref name=rbrown>{{cite web|url=http://bossierpress.com/opinion-working-with-jerry-byrd/|title=http://bossierpress.com/opinion-working-with-jerry-byrd/|title=Opinion: Working with Jerry Byrd|date=November 26, 2014|publisher=''Bossier Press-Tribune''|author=Randy Brown (publisher of the ''The Press-Tribune'')|accessdate=April 24, 2016}}</ref> He wrote a column for 2,131 consecutive editions of ''The Shreveport Journal'', excluding vacations and interrupted by a bout with gallstones but long enough to match Lou Gehrig's [[New York Yankees]] consecutive-game streak from 1925 to 1939. Byrd was ''The Journal'' sports editor beginning in 1970 for nearly  twenty-one of his thirty-four years with the publication. Afterwards, he wrote in 1991 and 1992 for the ''Minden Press-Herald'' in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in Webster Parish<ref>"Byrd named sports editor", ''Minden Press-Herald'', June 30, 1991, p. 1.</ref>  and the ''Bossier Press-Tribune'' in Bossier City from 1993 to 2012.<ref name=ktbs>{{cite web|url=http://www.ktbs.com/story/31788185/iconic-shreveport-sports-journalist-jerry-byrd-sr-passes-away|title=Iconic Shreveport sports journalist Jerry Byrd, Sr., passes away|date=April 21, 2016|publisher=KTBS-TV|accessdate=April 22, 2016}}</ref> He continued his column ''The Press-Tribune'' until 2013.

Byrd was a "hands-on" editor who snapped up details, such as making sure the sports photographers took a picture of the final tallies on the basketball scoreboard and that Bossier High School, which he had attended in his sophomore year, had two gyms used for basketball tournaments.<ref name=rbrown/>

Byrd was a "hands-on" editor who snapped up details, such as making sure the sports photographers took a picture of the final tallies on the basketball scoreboard and that Bossier High School, which he had attended in his sophomore year, had two gyms used for basketball tournaments.<ref name=rbrown/>