Peter Gammons (born April 9 1945) is a sportswriter, media personality and a National Baseball Hall of Fame honoree.

Jerome Holtzman (born December 11, 1926 in Chicago, IL USA) is an award-winning baseball writer and since 1999 has been the official historian for Major League Baseball.

Murray Chass is a sports journalist for "The New York Times". In 2003 the Baseball Writers Association of America honored him with the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, and he was honored during that summer's Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. He is considered a pioneer in the coverage of business and labor issues within baseball. Chass graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1960. He joined the Baseball Writers Association of America in 1962, …

Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith (September 25 1905 in Green Bay, Wisconsin - January 15 1982 in Stamford, Connecticut) was an American sportswriter who rose to become America's most widely read sportswriter. Today, he is remembered as one of America's most outstanding sportswriters. After graduating from East High School in Green Bay, site of Packers home games until 1957, Smith moved on to the University of Notre Dame.

Hal McCoy is a Cincinnati Reds beat writer for the "Dayton Daily News" (Dayton, Ohio). He was honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002 as the winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, which is awarded annually "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing." He gained national attention in 2003 when he continued to cover the Reds despite a stroke in his left eye that left him legally blind.

Robert William Patrick Broeg (March 18 1918 - October 28 2005) was an American sportswriter. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, he officially covered the St. Louis Cardinals for forty years. He graduated from Grover Cleveland High School (Class of '36) and the University of Missouri before entering the United States Marines. He served in Washington as a result of an eye injury suffered at birth. After the war, Broeg joined the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch".

Jack Lang (born May 11, 1921, died January 25, 2007) was a sportswriter who spent more than forty years covering New York's baseball teams.

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.

Leonard Koppett (September 15 1923 - June 22 2003) was one of the most prolific and influential sportswriters of the 20th century. Born in Moscow, Koppett moved with his family from Russia to the United States when he was five years old. They lived in The Bronx, New York, a block away from Yankee Stadium, sparking his early interest in sports. A graduate of Columbia University, he was a reporter and columnist for the "New York Herald Tribune", …

Shirley Lewis Povich (July 15, 1905 - June 4, 1998) became a sports columnist and reporter for the Washington Post in 1923. His parents were Jewish migrants from Lithuania. Having grown up in coastal Bar Harbor, Maine, far from a major league team, the first game he ever saw was a game for which he wrote the game story. In 1975, he was recipient of the Baseball Writers Association of America's J.G. Taylor Spink Award, the Baseball Hall of Fame honor for sportswriters.

Joseph Francis Falls (May 2 1928 - August 11 2004) was an American journalist. He began his career in his native New York City. At the age of 17 in 1945, he took a job as a copyboy for the Associated Press. After an apprenticeship of eight years, Falls moved to the Detroit bureau of the AP. In Detroit, Falls flourished. He was hired by the "Detroit Times" in 1956 to cover the Detroit Tigers.

Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880-July 13, 1954) was an early 20th century American sportswriter.

Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. He spun humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors and gangsters; few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead to be known as "Nathan Detroit", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", and so on.

Frederick Lieb was an American sportswriter and baseball historian. He and his wife Mary were especially close to Lou Gehrig. Walter Brennan's character in the movie "The Pride of the Yankees" was loosely based on him. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lieb died at age 92 in Houston, Texas.

Hal Lebovitz (September 11, 1916 - October 18, 2005) was a longtime sportswriter and award-winning columnist. He was a fixture on Cleveland's sports scene for more than six decades. In 2000, he was inducted into the writer's wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Born in Cleveland, he graduated from Glenville High School in 1934 and went on to Western Reserve University where he received a degree in Chemistry. He had always wanted to be a journalist, …

Wendell Smith (March 23 1914 - November 26 1972) was a noted African American sportswriter who was influential in the choice of Jackie Robinson to become the first African American player in Major League Baseball in the 20th century. A Detroit native, Smith graduated from West Virginia State College with a degree in physical education. He began his writing career in 1938 with the "Pittsburgh Courier", …

Robert Addie (February 6 1910 - January 18 1982) was an American sportswriter who covered baseball for "The Washington Post" and "Washington Times-Herald". Addie was known for his clean style, hilarious anecdotes, unabashed sentiment, red socks and dark glasses. He never missed a day on the Washington Senators' beat for 20 years until the team left town in 1971.

Joseph T. McGuff was an American journalist, author, and newspaper editor. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he attended Marquette University and served briefly in the United States Army before being discharged due to asthma. After first working for the "Tulsa World", he joined the staff of "The Kansas City Star" in 1948. He became sports editor in 1966 and was named editor of the "Star" in 1986. After the Kansas City Athletics departed for Oakland, …

Warren Brown (January 3, 1894 - November 20, 1978) was an American sportswriter who spent the major portion of his career in Chicago, Illinois. Brown was born in Somersville, CA a mining town near San Francisco. His father was the local saloon keeper. When the Somersville mines flooded the family moved to San Francisco where Brown was a firsthand witness to the great earthquake of 1906. Brown attended St.

James Patrick Murray (December 29, 1919 - August 17, 1998) was an American sportswriter at the "Los Angeles Times" from 1961 to 1998. Many of his achievements include winning the Sportswriter of the Year award fourteen times. In 1990, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his 1989 columns, and the Baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 1987.

Dan Daniel (June 6 1890 - July 1 1981), born Daniel Margowitz, was an American sportswriter whose prolific contributions over a long period led him to be called the Dean of American Baseball Writers. Daniel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. His family moved to New York City when he was a boy, and he remained there throughout his career. He attended the City College of New York, where he managed the basketball team.

John F. Kieran (August 2 1892 - December 10 1981) was an American sportswriter and naturalist. Born in New York City, in 1915 he began writing for "The New York Times" on the sports desk and went on to work for several newspapers in New York City. In 1938 he began a 12-year stint as one of the panelist on the radio program "Information Please" and later hosted two television series. A dedicated birdwatcher and observer of the natural world, …

Raymond "Ray" Kelly (born January 24, 1914 in Philadelphia, PA USA, died November 22, 1988 in Philadelphia, PA USA) Ray Kelly was a sportswriter who worked 50 years for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and covered the Philadelphia Athletics from 1948 to 1955 and the Phillies from 1956 until he retired in 1979. He died at age 74 at Nazareth Hospital in Philadelphia and was cremated.

Timothy Hayes Murnane (June 4 1852 - February 7 1917) was an American sportswriter specializing in baseball, regarded as the leading baseball writer at "The Boston Globe" for about thirty years until his death. At the same time, he organized and led professional sports leagues and helped govern the baseball industry. He had been a professional baseball player, and played several seasons in the major leagues, where he played as a first baseman and center fielder.

Joseph P. Durso (June 22 1924 - December 1 2004) was an American sportswriter for "The New York Times" from 1950 until his death, most noted for his coverage of baseball. Born in New York City, he was awarded the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 1995.

Harry G. Salsinger (1887 - 1958) (more commonly credited as H.G. Salsinger) was a sports editor of "The Detroit News" for 49 years. In 1907, he started writing for "The Cincinnati Post". Two years later, he began working at "The Detroit News". Salsinger was also a president of the Baseball Writers Association of America, which posthumously awarded him the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for his baseball writing in 1968.

Heywood Campbell Broun (December 7 1888 - December 18 1939) was an American journalist, sportswriter and newspaper columnist and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild. In 1917 Broun married writer-editor Ruth Hale, a feminist and founder of the Lucy Stone League, an organization that fought for women to keep their maiden names after marriage. They had one son, Heywood Hale Broun.