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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Sunday, 20 August 2017 / Published in Features

McCoy: Enthusiasm, Optimism, And Chamberlin…Flyers Ready For Some Football

Coaxing players to come to UD can’t be easy when there are no football scholarships to dangle, but head coach Rick Chamberlin is the pied piper who gets enough talent to make the Flyers a perennial winner, and the focus of very Pioneer Football League opponent. Read more in today's inside feature.
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Thursday, 17 August 2017 / Published in Features, Profiles

Hal at Large: Why Gene Bennett Meant So Much To Me….

He was a guy who you hoped would call, one you hated to see leave if he came to visit. And for Reds fans everywhere, Gene Bennett was largely responsible for the success during the era of the Big Red Machine. He found talent, and one of the nicest people I ever met.
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Monday, 14 August 2017 / Published in Hal McCoy, Hal McCoy Feature

Hal Answers: Volume 9

Got a question for the 'famer'? Send it to us and Hal McCoy will give you a more-or-less educated answer from his 50 years of covering the Reds and major league baseball. But hurry, because where has the summer gone...along with the Reds?
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Thursday, 20 July 2017 / Published in Hal McCoy, Hal McCoy Feature

Hal Answers: Volume 8

On continual vigil to defy the gloom of the unanswered baseball question, Hal McCoy weighs in on the latest from Press Pros readers everywhere - on day dreams, dirty baseballs, Hunter Greene, and do baseball players make their own bats. Read more in today's Press Pros inside feature.
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Wednesday, 05 July 2017 / Published in Hal McCoy, Hal McCoy Feature

Hal Answers: Volume 7

In this edition of questions for Hal McCoy: Does watching a losing team depress baseball writers...was the Cueto trade worse than Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas...and who pays for all those plane tickets when the Reds go on the road? For a good read and a grin, read today's Press Pros inside feature.