PETER GAMMONS Single Signed OML Baseball w/ HOF 05 Inscription HOF Sportswriter

SIGNER: Peter Gammons

BALL MANUFACTURER: Rawlings

BALL TYPE: Official Major League

COMMISSIONER'S STAMP: Bud Selig

COMMENTS / CONDITION: As with all of my signed items, the signature is guaranteed to pass inspection by any major authenticator, or your money back. See photos for signature quality and ball condition. This ball will ship in an acrylic display holder. Combined shipping is available for multiple ball purchases.

BIO: Peter Gammons was born in 1945 in Groton, MA and went to college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gammons began his career as a sports writer for the Boston Globe in 1969. He became well known for his Sunday baseball column in the Globe which featured his detailed, "encyclopedic" knowledge of the game. His edge as a sports writer was always knowing every player (star, journeyman or prospect), coach, manager and executive. He also had particularly detailed information about minor league and amateur players who were unknown to most people. Between his two stints as a baseball columnist with the Globe (1969–1975, 1978–1986), he was lead baseball columnist for Sports Illustrated (1976–78, 1986–90). Gammons also wrote a column for The Sporting News in the 1980's as well. In 1988, he joined ESPN, where he served primarily as an in-studio analyst. In 2006, Gammons was named as one of two field-level reporters for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, joining Bonnie Bernstein. He held that position through the 2008 season, when he moved exclusively to baseball. His knowledge was most obvious during the 1994/95 player strike when he reported on what might happen if there was ever baseball again. He was voted the National Sportswriter of the Year in 1989, 1990 and 1993 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. He has also been awarded an honorary Poynter 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. Although he suffered a brain aneurysm in June 2006, Gammons returned to ESPN on Wednesday, September 20, 2006, and resumed his regular reporting coverage during the 2007 baseball season.

SKU: BB0148

Item: BB0148

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PETER GAMMONS Single Signed OML Baseball w/ HOF 05 Inscription HOF Sportswriter
PETER GAMMONS Single Signed OML Baseball w/ HOF 05 Inscription HOF Sportswriter
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