14 Facts About Hal McCoy

Hal McCoy still covers all Reds home games, writing a blog for the Dayton Daily News and for his own web-site, halmccoy.

Hal McCoy is an honors graduate from the Kent State University School of Journalism.

Hal McCoy played first base at Kent on a partial baseball scholarship.

Hal McCoy was at the forefront of the Pete Rose investigation, breaking many stories during the 1989 season while covering the Reds on a daily basis.

Hal McCoy covered the infamous reign of former Reds CEO Marge Schott, the 1990 World Champion Reds, multiple baseball strikes and Reds ownership changes.

Hal McCoy has won 52 Ohio and national writing awards and was the first non-Cincinnati newsperson elected to the Cincinnati Journalists Hall of Fame.

Hal McCoy has been the Cincinnati BBWAA Chapter Chair 22 times and was the BBWAA national president in 1997.

Hal McCoy is the third writer from the Dayton Daily News to win the Spink Award, joining Si Burick and Ritter Collett.

Hal McCoy was inducted into the National Sports Media Hall of Fame in 2015.

On June 8,2015, McCoy was inducted in the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association's Hall of Fame.

Hal McCoy stated that the Dayton Daily News "will no longer cover the Cincinnati Reds the same way it has in the past" because "they just can't afford the more than a quarter of a million dollars a year" it costs to send him coast-to-coast.

In 2001, Hal McCoy's eyesight started to fail and the vision in his right eye blurred.

Hal McCoy had a stroke in the optic nerve that left him with a permanent blurry spot.

Hal McCoy had his scorebook enlarged, uses a magnifying glass for small print, follows the game by TV monitor, and writes on a large-screen laptop with enlarged print.