The February/March 2020 edition of PressBox marked Jim Henneman’s eighth consecutive decade covering Baltimore sports in print. He spoke with PressBox about his high school and college days, how he got his start in the business, covering the Orioles for so long and how he’s remained involved in journalism to this day.
Henneman, an official scorer at Camden Yards, has written for PressBox since the publication’s inception in 2006. He has been a Baseball Hall of Fame voter for the past 39 years and is on the Hall of Fame’s Historical Oversight Committee, which puts together ballots for various Veterans Committees to vote on.
Before getting his start in journalism, Henneman played baseball at Calvert Hall. He was in the graduating class of 1953. When Henneman was a Cardinal, he pitched against future Baseball Hall of Famer Al Kaline, a Baltimore native who starred at Southern High School.
