Like the old Kansas City Athletics American League team of the 1950s and 1960s that was often referred to as a minor league affiliate of the New York Yankees (for shuttling its top prospects off to the Bronx where they would become big league stars), Baltimore has provided a pipeline of baseball writers, reporters, broadcasters and television personalities to major metropolitan newspapers and other national media outlets.
Longtime Boston Globe columnist and Red Sox beat writer Dan Shaughnessy cut his journalistic chops as a 23-year-old cub reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun in 1977 and the Washington Star from 1978-1981.
Joining a lineage of legendary writers that includes: Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice and Damon Runyon, Shaughnessy was recently honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame with its J.G. Taylor Spink Award for "meritorious contributions to baseball writing," during the Hall's Induction Weekend July 23-24.
