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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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Tuesday, 10 May 2016 / Published in Features

Questions For Hal: Volume 6

Questions for Hal McCoy in this edition from readers far and wide, on: Interleague play, Joey Votto, state of Reds catching, does anyone miss Aroldis Chapman now, and whatever happened to Elmer Dessens? Read more in today's Press Pros inside feature.
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Tuesday, 03 May 2016 / Published in Features

McCoy: A Long Year Of Candidates…And Frauds!

How are all those trades working out? Frazier, Cueto, Leake, Latos? Dusty let go in place of Bryan Price? And now, even Pete Mackanin (remember him?) is winning in Philly. It's anyone's quess as to what's next for the Reds.
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Monday, 25 April 2016 / Published in Features

Questions For Hal: Volume 5….

The latest in volume 5 of questions for Hal McCoy: On alternative faces on the $20 bill, the Rosie Reds, why some ballparks (like GABP, above) give up more homers than others, and why is there an infield fly rule? Read and enjoy in today's Press Pros inside feature.
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Thursday, 21 April 2016 / Published in Features

Questions For Hal: Volume #4….

The latest from Press Pros readers, and some old regulars that we welcome back to the page...this week on early wins, high pitch counts, Jay Bruce (above), free Cokes at the ballpark, and, are attendance figures for baseball...rigged?
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Monday, 11 April 2016 / Published in Features

Hal McCoy: Cory Luebke’s Long Road Home….

Not many would endure so much to preserve the job he loves. Cory Luebke is one of of the few and now appears to have beaten the odds. Read his story of prevail and comeback in today's Inside feature. from Hal McCoy. (Photo Courtesy of The San Diego Padres)
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