Born in Indiana and educated in Georgia, Greg Hoard came to Cincinnati in the winter of 1979 as a columnist for the Cincinnati Post sports department, and joined the Cincinnati Enquirer in 1984 as the beat writer for the Cincinnati Reds.  He has received numerous awards for his work.In 1990, he left journalism for television. Hoard worked for WLWT-TV from 1990 through 1993 as sports director and spent 12 years as sports director at WXIX-TV.His written work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, Baseball America, Baseball Digest and NFL Game Day. He has appeared on ESPN and NBC’s The Today Show.Greg is the author of three books: Joe, Rounding Home and Heading for Home; Gary Burbank, Voices in My Head; and, most recently, Hannan’s Way, An Unlikely Trek Through Life. He is currently working on a baseball memoir, parts of which he will share here.
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Monday, 13 September 2021 / Published in Features, Home Features

Hoard: Shhooosh! Let The Game Do The Talking

Baseball and time change, as do the voices we come to depend on to describe the action.  Too much change, for some of us, I fear.  It's been two years since Marty left.  It seems...like light years.
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Monday, 17 May 2021 / Published in Features, Home Features

Sign Of The Times: Uncle Bob, ‘Charlie Hustle’, Crosley Field, And The Way It Used To Be

Sign of the times?  There was a time when you went to a major league game to learn, not be entertained or to hear a statement on political correctness.  You went because you were interested...in baseball! Greg Hoard writes for today's Press Pros.
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Tuesday, 04 May 2021 / Published in Features, Home Features

Greg Hoard: A Thought, A Memory, A Reason To Win

There has been so much written and debated on the topic of winning in this space–some of it thoughtful and well-intended, some of it shallow and mean-spirited.  But in the end words that my dad once said to me are everything I ever needed to know on the subject, and might come in handy even in this day of trophies before triumph.
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Sunday, 10 January 2021 / Published in Features, Home Features

Hoard: To An Absent Friend…Tommy Lasorda

Time didn’t seem to matter to Tommy Lasorda. It didn’t matter if it had been a day, a week or years since you had last seen him, nothing changed. His greeting was always loud and warm, a verbal embrace that made you feel good about all things. Greg Hoard remembers a friend in today's Press Pros.
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Thursday, 10 September 2020 / Published in Features, Home Features

Hoard: On The Passing of A Friend, Lou Brock

Baseball mourns the loss of a legend. My sorrow is for the loss of a man of brilliance, a man of kindness and good humor. My sorrow is for the loss of a friend. Greg Hoard writes for Press Pros.