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• n  a member of the military police in Britain
• n  a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station

• He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal.
• He once ruled that a traveling Government official could not tip a redcap more than 25 for two bags.
• A Pacific University graduate who once worked as a redcap despite a journalism degree, he was taken on as a copy boy in 1952.

News & Articles

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• Your Calls for the Hall
  In my 30 seasons covering pro football, I’ve found that nothing stirs the passions of fans—and plain ticks off the masses—the way Pro Football Hall of Fame voting does. During the raging Art Monk debate eight or 10 years ago (at the time, I was not in the pro-Monk camp and didn’t hide my feelings), I got off a train at Washington’s Union Station, and a redcap saw me. He sneered. He shook his ...
  Oct. 11, 2013 - Sports Illustrated