Tim Kurkjian is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 10, 1956 in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. Baseball reporter who is best known for his many years of experience as an analyst and Major League Baseball journalist and analyst at ESPN. He has written several books about baseball, including Is This a Great Game or What? (2007) and I’m Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies (2016).
He is a weekly guest on The Dan Batard Show. Batard show.
In 1974, Kurkjian enrolled at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. While at Maryland, Kurkjian covered high school sports for his hometown newspaper, the Montgomery Journal. Immediately after graduating from Maryland with a B.A. in journalism in 1978, Kurkjian took an entry-level position with the Washington Star. By 1981, he became a staff writer. When the Star folded that year, he took a position with the Baltimore News-American. That paper also went out of business within two months of Kurkjian’s arrival. He began covering baseball as the Texas Rangers beat writer for The Dallas Morning News where he worked from 1981 to 1985. Kurkjian then covered the Baltimore Orioles for The Baltimore Sun beginning in 1986. He was a senior writer for Sports Illustrated from 1989 to 1997. In 1997, Sports Illustrated reassigned him to covering basketball. He served in this capacity for six months before accepting a job at ESPN as a baseball writer and television journalist in 1998 at 40 years old.
Kurkjian attended Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, where he played on the school’s basketball and baseball teams. At the suggestion of his basketball coach, Kurkjian began writing for the student newspaper, The Pitch, and the school’s yearbook, “The Wind-up.” He eventually became the sports editor of The Pitch and realized that journalism would be the surest means of fulfilling his childhood dream of making a living in professional sports. He graduated from the school in 1974.
He was married to attorney Kathleen Patrick, with whom there is one daughter, named Kelly. He is the brother to Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Stephen Kurkjian.
