George Spencer Vecsey is an American non-fiction author and sports columnist for The New York Times.
11 Facts About George Vecsey
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George Vecsey is the older brother of fellow sports journalist, columnist, and former NBATV and NBA on NBC color commentator Peter Vecsey.
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George Vecsey has written about such events as the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics and on a wide variety of sports including tennis, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, and boxing, but considers baseball, the sport he's covered since 1960, his favorite, and has written more books about it than any other sport.
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George Vecsey has served as a national and religion reporter for The New York Times, interviewing the Dalai Lama, former British prime minister Tony Blair, American Christian evangelist Billy Graham, and a host of other noteworthy figures.
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George Vecsey has written books exclusively about modern baseball history such as McGwire and Sosa, about the home run record chase by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa that took place in 1998, and Subway 2000, about the New York Mets and New York Yankees Subway Series that took place in 2000.
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George Vecsey was one of 25 Newsday journalists who contributed to the literary hoax Naked Came the Stranger.
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George Vecsey wrote the third chapter which was titled and about Morton Earbrow, the second character seduced by the protagonist.
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George Vecsey's Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game is a concise history of the game of professional baseball.
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George Vecsey was the 2013 recipient of the National Soccer Hall of Fame's Colin Jose Media Award.
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George Vecsey received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hofstra University in 1960.
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George Vecsey was awarded an honorary doctorate from Hofstra in 1990.