Editing Damon Runyon (section)

==Legacy==
* After Runyon's death, his friend and fellow journalist [[Walter Winchell]] went on his radio program and appealed for contributions to help fight cancer, eventually establishing the [[Damon Runyon Cancer Memorial Fund]] to support scientific research into causes of, and prevention of, cancer.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.damonrunyon.org| title = Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation}}</ref>
* The first-ever [[telethon]] was hosted by [[Milton Berle]] in 1949 to raise funds for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
* Each year the Denver Press Club assigns the Damon Runyon Award to a prominent journalist. Past winners include [[Jimmy Breslin]], [[Mike Royko]], [[George Will]] and [[Bob Costas]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.denverpressclub.org/damon-runyon-award| author=John C. Ensslin| publisher=Denver Press Club| title=Denver Press Club's Damon Runyon Award for contributions in the field of journalism| access-date=June 22, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101108094329/http://www.denverpressclub.org/damon-runyon-award| archive-date=November 8, 2010| url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Damon Runyon Elementary school in Littleton, Colorado is named after him.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://runyon.littletonpublicschools.net/| title = Damon Runyon Elementary school}}</ref>
* The [[Damon Runyon Stakes]] is a thoroughbred horse race run every December at [[Aqueduct Race Track]]. Runyon loved horse racing and ran a small stable of his own.
* In the mid-1930s, Runyon persuaded promoter [[Leo Seltzer]] to formally change his [[History of roller derby|Roller Derby]] spectacle from a marathon [[roller-skating]] race into a full-contact team sport,<ref>{{cite news |title=Blood on the Tracks |last=Turczyn |first=Coury |date=January 28, 1999 |work=[[Metro Pulse]] |url=http://www.popcultmag.com/obsessions/fadsandphenoms/rollerderby/derby2.html |access-date=February 11, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228045852/http://www.popcultmag.com/obsessions/fadsandphenoms/rollerderby/derby2.html |archive-date=February 28, 2008 }} (link points to the archived article in the Spring 2000 edition of the author's own ''PopCult Magazine'' website): "The faster skaters would break out and try and get laps so they would get ahead in the race, and some of the slower skaters started to band together to try and hold them back", says Seltzer. "And at first, they didn't want to let them do that – but then the people liked it so much, they kind of allowed blocking. Then they came down to Miami – I think it was 1936, early '37 – and Damon Runyon, a very famous sports writer, saw it and he sat down with my father and hammered out the rules, almost exactly as they are today."</ref> an innovation that was eventually revived in a DIY spirit seven decades later.
* One block of West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen is named Runyon's Way.
* The house in Manhattan, Kansas, where Runyon was born, is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name=house>[http://www.cityofmhk.com/documentview.aspx?DID=1049 Manhattan's historic landmarks & districts: Damon Runyon House] (Kansas State Historical Society National Register of Historic Places – Nomination form), cityofmhk.com. Retrieved March 20, 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.rileycountyks.gov/FAQ.aspx?QID=313 What buildings in Riley County are on the Historic Register?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014095105/http://rileycountyks.gov/FAQ.aspx?QID=313 |date=October 14, 2011 }}. Riley County Official Website, www.rileycountyks.gov. Retrieved March 20, 2012.</ref>
* In 2008, [[The Library of America]] selected "The Eternal Blonde", Runyon's account of a 1927 murder trial, for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.
* Until January 1944, the 515th B-24 bomber squadron "Satan's Kids", of the 376th Bomber Group named their bombers after Runyon "Gangster" characters,<ref name=B-24>[http://www.b24bestweb.com/joeyuptown2.htm Joey Uptown]</ref><ref name=515th2>[https://www.americanairmuseum.com/unit/4008 515th Squadron aircraft]</ref>