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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, 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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Friday, 08 April 2016 / Published in Features

Questions For Hal: Volume 3

Our latest from readers of Press Pros for hall of famer Hal McCoy...on where baseballs come from, old baseball parks, favorite "bad" cigars, and how many lives does Billy Hamilton have left as the Reds centerfielder. For your reading enjoyment...in today's PPM inside feature.
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Monday, 04 April 2016 / Published in Features

Hal: What The Opener Should Be, And Usually Isn’t….

You expect marquee names and marquee deeds on the season's first big stage. But it was a bunch of "Average Joes" that showed up Monday to win it for the Reds.
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Tuesday, 29 March 2016 / Published in UD, UD Feature

Hal: Voodoo And “Oogahboogah”, Awake Flyers In Win Over EKU

A little voodoo, maybe, but a big lefthander named Mason Kutruff had some better magic of his own, pitching UD to a Tuesday win over Eastern Kentucky. Read Hal McCoy's story in today's Press Pros inside feature.
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