Hal McCoy is a former beat writer for the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio), covering the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. He was honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002 as the winner of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, which is awarded annually "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing." He has won 52 Ohio and national writing awards and was the first non-Cincinnati newsperson elected to the Cincinnati Journalists Hall of Fame. He also was inducted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame and the Irish-American Baseball Hall of Fame. He has a stone on Dayton's Walk of Fame and the press box at Dayton's Howell Field is named the Hal McCoy Press Box. McCoy has been the Cincinnati BBWAA Chapter Chair 22 times and was the BBWAA national president in 1997. He is the third writer from the Dayton Daily News to win the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, joining Si Burick (1982) and Ritter Collett (1991). Residing in Englewood, Ohio, McCoy is an honors graduate in journalism from Kent State University.
The University of Dayton and Xavier put on an exhibition show for charity on the outdoor center court of the Lindner Family Tennis Center in front of 11,015 fans and while the Flyers lost, coach Anthony Grant saw some good things and some things that need to be addressed and fixed after their appearance in the Care Source Invitational.
A horse from Canada, Redland Rocket Man with driver Jody Jamieson (above), blasted to the victory Thursday in the 81st Little Brown Jug in Delaware, delighting the crowd and turning back the formidable challenge of four horses from the same owner to claim that which is arguably harness racing's biggest prize. Hall of fame columnist Hal McCoy writes the story for Press Pros....
