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.
Russia’s bid for a second straight Division IV state baseball championship fell one victory short when the Raiders were unable to stop high-scoring Berlin Hiland, losing, 14-4, after Hiland broke a 4-4 tie with a six-run sixth inning. Akron, OH — When Berlin Hiland baseball coach Chris Dages yells, “Hey, Yoder, throw me a baseball,”
Ohio State's Trey Lipsey entered a game Sunday against the University of Dayton with a .071 batting average due to groin injury that sidelined him for 10 games. He exploded against the Flyers for a home run (pictured), double and a single to drive in six runs and lead the Buckeyes to a 12-8 victory, their seventh straight win. Hal McCoy writes Ohio State baseball.
The temperature was 36, the wind chill factor was 27, the wind was 17 miles per hour, but that didn't stop Ohio State and the University of Dayton from playing a competitive baseball game in OSU's home opener, a 7-2 win when the Buckeyes broke a 2-2 tie with five runs in the seventh inning. Hal McCoy writing for the Ohio State baseball.