16 Facts About Tim Kurkjian

Tim Kurkjian is a Major League Baseball analyst on ESPN's Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter.

Tim Kurkjian is a contributor to ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.

On December 7,2021, Kurkjian was named the recipient of the BBWAA Career Excellence Award for 2022, presented annually by the Baseball Writers' Association of America and officially awarded during induction ceremonies for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Tim Kurkjian was an avid baseball fan who instilled in his son his love of both the sport and of statistics from a young age.

Tim Kurkjian attended Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, where he played on the school's basketball and baseball teams.

In 1974, Tim Kurkjian enrolled at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Tim Kurkjian began covering baseball as the Texas Rangers beat writer for The Dallas Morning News where he worked from 1981 to 1985.

Tim Kurkjian was a senior writer for Sports Illustrated from 1989 to 1997.

Tim Kurkjian 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.

Tim Kurkjian was the 1999,2007, and 2023 Commencement speaker at his alma mater, Walter Johnson High School, the 2008 speaker at Seneca Valley High School, and delivered the winter commencement speech at the University of Maryland on December 19,2007.

Since Van Pelt's departure from his radio slot to anchor the late night SportsCenter show, the mantle of making Tim Kurkjian laugh has been taken up by The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, which uses its meme of people in the sports world, be they players, coaches or officials, who look like non-sporting people in mundane or ridiculous situations.

On September 29,2020, Tim Kurkjian helped commentate the American League Wild Card Series postseason game between the Houston Astros and Minnesota Twins alongside play-by-play announcer Karl Ravech and analyst Eduardo Perez.

Since 2014, Tim Kurkjian has traveled to South Williamsport PA each August to provide analysis during ESPN's coverage of the Little League World Series.

Tim Kurkjian's cousins are Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Kurkjian and Bob Kurkjian, an engineering teacher at the Learning Prep School in West Newton, MA.

On every day of the Major League Baseball season, from 1990 through 2009, Tim Kurkjian cut every MLB box score out of a newspaper and taped them into a spiral notebook.

Tim Kurkjian stopped doing this due to the lack of newspapers printing box scores.