Peter Gammons
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Gammons attended the University of North Carolina, where he worked for the university's student-run newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel. After graduating in 1969, he began his journalism career at The Boston Globe.
Gammons was a featured writer at The Boston Globe for many years as the main journalist covering the Boston Red Sox, (1969-1976, 1978-1986). Between his two stints as a baseball columnist with the Globe, he was lead baseball columnist for Sports Illustrated (1976-78, 1986-90), where he covered baseball, hockey, and college basketball. Since 1990, he has worked at ESPN as an in-studio analyst.[1] During the baseball season, he appears nightly on Baseball Tonight and has regular spots on SportsCenter, ESPNEWS and ESPN Radio. He writes an Insider column for ESPN.com and also writes for ESPN The Magazine.
Gammons is regarded as one of the top reporters in sports and is known for his high-profile interviews and his network of sources which allow him to report on major events (such as trades) days before they are official. His knowledge has earned him the nickname "The Commissioner." He is regularly interviewed on radio and television programs. Gammons has also authored numerous baseball books, including Beyond the Sixth Game. Still, he is also known for occasional gaffes, such as his oft-repeated statement during the 2003 playoffs incorrectly referring to Tim Wakefield of the Red Sox as the only knuckleball pitcher ever to win a game in the post season, ignoring Gene Bearden and Eddie Cicotte, and others who threw what we now refer to as a "knuckle curve."
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 was selected as the 56th recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing, given by the BBWAA, and was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 31, 2005.
Suffered a brain aneurysm in June of 2006. Fortunately his recovery was quick and returned to work a few months later.
