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Thomas Boswell

Thomas Boswell
Born	(1947-10-11) October 11, 1947 (age 76) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	Sportswriter, Author
Alma mater	Amherst College (B.A.)

Thomas M. Boswell (born October 11, 1947) is a retired American sports columnist.

Career

Boswell spent his entire career at the Washington Post, joining it shortly after graduating from Amherst College in 1969. He became a Post columnist in 1984. In addition to the Post, he has written for Esquire, GQ, Playboy and Inside Sports. He also makes frequent television appearances.^[1]

Writing primarily about baseball, he is credited with inventing the total average statistic.^[2]

In 1994, he appeared several times in the Ken Burns series Baseball, sharing insightful commentary into the history of America's national pastime; he appeared again in "The Tenth Inning," Burns' 2010 extension of the series.

On October 19, 2020, Boswell announced in his Washington Post column that he would not be covering the World Series for the first time since 1975. The 72-year-old Boswell cited health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that it was too risky for someone at his age to make the trip. Boswell pointed out in his column that at the time, the 1975 World Series was considered the greatest World Series ever played, largely due to the dramatic game six that ended with Carlton Fisk’s historic home run. The drama of the series convinced him to remain a journalist with the Post and, in his column, he speculates “Where would I be today if Fisk’s ball had gone foul?”^[3]

Boswell's column compelled the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy to also write a column about missing the World Series for the first time in his career. Like Boswell, his column listed some of the greatest moments he had experienced covering the games.^[4]

On May 7, 2021, Boswell announced that he would be retiring at the end of June 2021 in a column in The Washington Post.^[5]

Awards

In 2018, Boswell was inducted into the National Sports Media Association's Hall of Fame. Previously, he had been inducted into the Washington DC Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame and the Washington, DC Sports Hall of Fame, one of only seven sports writers among the 140 members, who include Walter Johnson, Red Auerbach, Bones McKinney, and National Sports Media Association Hall of Famers Shirley Povich and Bob Wolff.^[6]

Books

How Life Imitates the World Series (1982)
Why Time Begins on Opening Day (1984)
Strokes of Genius (1987)
The Heart of the Order (1989)
Game Day: Sports Writings 1970–1990 (1990)
Cracking the Show (1994)
Diamond Dreams (with Walter Iooss) (1996)

References

^ "Still No Cheering in the Press Box: Thomas Boswell". Shirely Povich Center for Sports Journalism. University of Maryland.
^ "Remembering some stats: Total Average". Society for American Baseball Research.
^ Boswell, Thomas (October 19, 2020). "The World Series has framed my life. After 44 straight, I'm sitting this one out". The Washington Post. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
^ Shaughnessy, Dan (October 21, 2020). "My unforgettable World Series moments over the last 43 years". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
^ Boswell, Thomas (May 7, 2021). "After covering everything for 52 years, it's time to see what I missed". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
^ "2018 - Thomas 'Tom' Boswell". National Sports Media Association. Retrieved 26 October 2020.

External links

Boswell's columns at The Washington Post
Thomas Boswell at IMDb

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