17 Facts About Bud Collins

Bud Collins graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

From 1959 to 1963, Bud Collins served as tennis coach at Brandeis University, where one of his players was future political activist Abbie Hoffman.

Bud Collins began writing for the Boston Herald as a sportswriter while a student at Boston University.

Bud Collins teamed with Donald Dell to call tennis matches for PBS television from 1974 to 1977.

Bud Collins covered numerous sports, athletes and teams for The Boston Globe, including the Boston Red Sox during their "Impossible Dream" 1967 season.

Bud Collins insisted that did not plan to retire and would continue to cover tennis for The Boston Globe.

Ryan said that the 78-year-old Bud Collins "still has his fastball" and praised the Boston Globe for retaining Bud Collins.

Bud Collins covered the US Open for XM Satellite Radio.

In 1999, Bud Collins received the Red Smith Award, the nation's most prestigious sportswriting honor, awarded by Associated Press Sports Editors.

Bud Collins was inducted in the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame in 2002.

Bud Collins won the US indoor mixed-doubles championship in 1961, and was a finalist in the French senior doubles in 1975.

Bud Collins produced several tennis encyclopedias, including The Modern Encyclopedia of Tennis, the Bud Collins Tennis Encyclopedia and Total Tennis.

In 1992, Bud Collins hosted the 116th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on the USA Network.

In 1994, Bud Collins was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Bud Collins died on March 4,2016, at age 86 in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home.

Bud Collins was someone who loved tennis, lived and breathed it, and we don't have enough of those people, either.

Bud Collins was an outstanding journalist, an entertaining broadcaster, and as our historian he never let us forget or take for granted the rich history of our sport.