Jon Heyman was born on February 7,1961 and is an American baseball columnist for the New York Post, a baseball insider for MLB Network and WFAN Radio and co-host with Joel Sherman of the baseball podcast The Show.
11 Facts About Jon Heyman
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Jon Heyman is Jewish and had his bar mitzvah at Temple Sinai in Lawrence, New York in 1974.
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Jon Heyman graduated from Lawrence High School in 1979 and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1983.
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Jon Heyman began his professional career as a sports writer with The Daily Dispatch in Moline, Illinois.
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Jon Heyman spent 16 years at Newsday, where he served as the New York Yankees beat writer, baseball columnist and general sports columnist.
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From 1999 to 2000, Jon Heyman was a baseball columnist for The Sporting News.
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At SI, Jon Heyman generally reported on baseball news year-round and wrote a baseball notes column called The Daily Scoop for SI.
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In 2009, Jon Heyman joined the newly launched MLB Network as a baseball insider.
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In December 2011, Jon Heyman left Sports Illustrated to cover baseball for CBS Sports following the 2011 MLB Winter Meetings.
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In 2016, Jon Heyman left CBS Sports and joined the FanRag Sports Network as an MLB insider and senior writer for Today's Knuckleball.
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In December 2024, Jon Heyman was involved in a verbal altercation with WFAN host Keith McPherson.