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.
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Monday, 12 October 2020 / Published in Features, Home Features

McCoy: Thirty-Five Years Of Not Speaking To Joe Morgan

His play was a statement for the little guy in baseball.  Joe Morgan was the first of the game's great second baseman that could literally do it all...and at a hall of fame level. Hal McCoy remembers "the wheels of the Big Red Machine" in today's Press Pros.
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Monday, 28 September 2020 / Published in UD, UD Feature

McCoy: What’s Happening On The Flyer Basketball Front?

The season at hand is up in the air more than Obi Toppin.  But UD athletic director Neil Sullivan is doing his best to have every thing grounded by November 25.  Keep your fingers crossed. Hal McCoy writes for today's Press Pros.
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Wednesday, 12 August 2020 / Published in Features, Home Features

Hal: The Day I Unwittingly Had A Hand In The Firing Of Tony Perez

It’s been 27 years, but the details of his firing are still fresh in my mind.  And why not?  It was probably my doing that led to Tony Perez getting fired as manager of the Reds 44 games into his managerial career. Englewood – This is about a time in my long, long, long career
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Sunday, 02 August 2020 / Published in Features, Home Features

Hal Answers: August 3, 2020

What Julia Child was to food, Hal McCoy is to the Cuban cigar and readers' questions on all things baseball.  If you have questions on baseball for Hal, send them via the 'contact' prompt in his latest articles. Until then...enjoy today's inside feature.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2020 / Published in Features, Home Features

McCoy At-Large: What Happened To The Game I Played?

Is this so hard? The game has changed so much they no longer play to win, but rather...to see who can hit it the farthest, strike out the most, and for television ratings.  So why did I spend all that time learning to catch...and bunt? Hal McCoy writes for today's Press Pros.