Maryland Native Tim Kurkjian To Be Honored At National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Induction Ceremony

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Tim Kurkjian, a Maryland autochthonal who erstwhile worked the Baltimore Orioles beat, has been awarded the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s Career Excellence Award and volition beryllium honored astatine the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum adjacent July.

He volition beryllium presented the grant “for meritorious contributions to shot writing” during induction ceremonies scheduled for July 22-25 successful Cooperstown, N.Y., the hallway announced Tuesday.

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A autochthonal of Bethesda, Md., Kurkjian graduated from Walter Johnson High School and went connected the study journalism astatine the University of Maryland. He landed his archetypal occupation successful 1979 astatine the Washington Star.

Following a little stint covering the Texas Rangers, Kurkjian returned to the country to screen the Orioles for the Baltimore Sun, wherever helium remained from 1986 to 1989.

After 7 years arsenic a nationalist shot writer for Sports Illustrated, Kurkjian successful 1998 landed astatine ESPN, wherever helium has worked ever since arsenic a columnist for ESPN.com and an expert for the amusement “Baseball Tonight.” He won an Emmy for his enactment connected that programme successful 2002, and received a 2nd successful 2003-04 for his contributions to “SportsCenter,” the hallway of fame said.

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Kurkjian has besides written 3 books: “America’s Game,” “Is This a Great Game oregon What?” and “I’m Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies.”

All along, he’s kept his section roots. Kurkjian is connected the committee of directors for the University of Maryland’s Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism and was the university’s commencement talker successful 2007.

And you tin archer he’s inactive a Maryland feline heavy down conscionable by watching him ace up uncontrollably arsenic ESPN big Scott Van Pelt breaks retired his champion Bawlmer accent.

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Brandon Weigel