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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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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.
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Thursday, 08 June 2017 / Published in Hal McCoy, Hal McCoy Feature

Hal Answers: Volume 5

There's a little bit of everything in this edition of answers from Hal McCoy - Reds players with funny names...the price of beer in the 'good ol' days...progress of #1 draft choice Nick Senzel (pictured)...and whatever happened to the vintage ball bats of the past. Read today's inside feature if you're dying to know.
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Thursday, 25 May 2017 / Published in Hal McCoy, Hal McCoy Feature

Hal Answers: Volume #4

The latest PPM reader questions for resident hall of famer Hal McCoy...questions about the Big Red Machine as time marches on, who is Roe Skidmore, and who was the best Reds catcher before, or after, Johnny Bench? Want a good read? Check out today's PPM inside feature.
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Sunday, 14 May 2017 / Published in Hal McCoy, Hal McCoy Feature

Hal Answers: Volume #2

Got a question about baseball that no one can, or will, answer? Send them to the "famer"... hall of fame columnist Hal McCoy. He guarantees satisfaction, more or less. Read some of the recent best - on brushback pitches, where baseballs are made, and if Blue Emu ointment works - in today's Press Pros inside feature.
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