Sonny Fulks
A native of Piqua, and graduate of Ohio State University, Sonny Fulks pitched four varsity seasons for the baseball Buckeyes from 1971 through ’74, and furthered his baseball career as a minor league league umpire for seven years, working in the Florida State League (A), the Southern League (AA), and the American Association (AAA). He formerly authored the Fanfile and WPTW.com sports websites, and is the photo editor of Gettysburg Magazine, published by Morningside Books, in Dayton, Ohio. Involved with a number of writing projects, he’s currently writing a book on Ohio State baseball and former hall of fame coach, Marty Karow.
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Chick Ludwig
For the past 30 years, Chick Ludwig has been one of the Miami Valley’s most popular sports columnists, the past twelve as the Bengals beat writer for the Dayton Daily News. He retired from the DDN in October of 2009, and currently writes a weekly Bengals blog for the Cincinnati Enquirer and is the Bengals correspondent for the The Sporting News. A former voting member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee, Ludwig is a journalism graduate of Ohio State University.
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Hal McCoy
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 43 Ohio and national writing awards and was the first non-Cincinnati newsperson elected to the Cincinnati Journalists Hall of Fame. 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 Clayton, Ohio, McCoy is an honors graduate in journalism from Kent State University.
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Dale Meggas
Dale Meggas brings more than 25 years of sports media experience to Press Pros Magazine. A graduate of The Ohio State University in journalism, Dale has a Master’s degree in sports administration from Western Illinois University. He has worked for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics when both were based in Kansas City. He has also covered the Cleveland Indians for major wire services, writing game stories for national distribution. He writes on Cleveland State University and the Indians for Examiner.com.
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Jim Morris
Jim Morris has worked for newspapers, radio, television and various Websites for more than 47 years. He has been a writer, an editor, an editorial writer and a columnist. For 23 years, Morris worked for the Troy Daily News as sports editor, managing editor and executive editor. In 1994 he began working at the Dayton Daily News as an outdoor sports columnist and night sports desk editor. He retired from the DDN in January of 2010 and is now a freelance writer with his own Website for outdoors stories. Morris is a graduate of Ohio University and has been a member of several journalistic associations. He and his wife, Pat, have two grown children and five grandchildren.
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Greg Hoard
Born in Indiana and educated in Georgia, Greg Hoard came to Cincinnati in the winter of 1979 as a columnist for the Cincinnati Post sports department, and joined the Cincinnati Enquirer in 1984 as the beat writer for the Cincinnati Reds. He has received numerous awards for his work. In 1990, he left journalism for television. Hoard worked for WLWT-TV from 1990 through 1993 as sports director and spent 12 years as sports director at WXIX-TV. His written work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, Baseball America, Baseball Digest and NFL Game Day. He has appeared on ESPN and NBC’s The Today Show. Greg is the author of three books: Joe, Rounding Home and Heading for Home; Gary Burbank, Voices in My Head; and, most recently, Hannan’s Way, An Unlikely Trek Through Life. He is currently working on a baseball memoir, parts of which he will share here.
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