Peter Gammons
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Gammons was a featured writer at The Boston Globe for many years as the main journalist covering the Boston Red Sox. He still resides in Massachusetts.
Between his two stints as a baseball columnist with the Globe, he was lead baseball columnist for Sports Illustrated. Since 1989, he has worked at ESPN as an in-studio analyst. During the baseball season, he appears nightly on Baseball Tonight and has regular spots on SportsCenter, ESPNEWS and ESPN Radio. He writes a column for ESPN.com and also writes for ESPN The Magazine. Gammons is regarded as one of the top men in the sports media business and has done many high-profile interviews in his days with ESPN.
Gammons, with his inside sources, is usually first to break the news of new signings or trade developments in the world of baseball. He is regularly interviewed by numerous radio stations and TV broadcasts. Gammons has also authored numerous baseball books, including Beyond the Sixth Game.
He was voted the National Sportswriter of the Year in 1989, 1990 and 1993. He has also been awarded an honorary Pointer Fellow from Yale University. In 2004 Gammons won the 56th J.G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing, given by the BBWAA, and he will be honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 31, 2005.
External link
- Baseball Hall of Fame - Spink Award recipient (http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/spink_bios/)