Peter Gammons is leaving ESPN following the end of baseball's winter meetings this week. Gammons, who joined ESPN in 1989 after a distinguished print journalism career with the Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated, has decided to pursue other endeavors. "My decision to leave ESPN and move on at this point in my life has been conflicted," said Gammons in a statement. "I owe a great deal of my professional life to ESPN, having spent more than half of my 40 years in journalism working for the network, and the choice to move on was made with nothing but the strongest feelings for the people with whom I worked. ESPN gave me a great deal more than I gave it, and will always be a huge part of who I am." Gammons, 64, was named the 2004 J.G. Taylor Spink Award winner for outstanding baseball writing during the 2005 Hall of Fame induction ceremony. "As a print journalist moving to television, Peter was a pioneer who became a Hall of Famer," said Norby Williamson, ESPN's executive vice president, production. "His contributions to ESPN will never be forgotten. We're sad to see Peter go, but understand his desire for new challenges and a less demanding schedule." http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4725366
Dude was way past his prime. He didn't break any more stories like his used to. He always talked about the Red Sox. Tim Kurkjan brings nothing to table either. Buster Olney is the best they got by far. Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports is the best at breaking stories.
BINGO... BrentSGambill Official: MLB press release. Peter Gammons will also write for MLB.com as well as an analyst on MLB Network.
Even if he's gotten up there and the information age has changed things, I still have a fondness for his reports from the past... his baseball insight and trade talk stuff on SportsCenter was always the best for me. Before TIVO, the Internet, etc. ... anytime ESPN would say Peter Gammons was going to come on, I would make sure to sit through rounds of commercials so as not to miss what he would say.
Gammons on suicide watch post Yankees getting Granderson. Yankees are going to spank his Red Sox again this upcoming season.
Why go from ESPN to the MLB Network? Does anyone actually watch the latter? It seems like a good way to quickly become irrelevant.
Same here, suprised to see that. He is the ultimate ESPN Red Sox Nation bandwagoner, but he will be missed
I do. MLB Network is awesome. Harold Reynolds and Bob Costas alone are worth watching for, but they also get great interviews. Last night they spent time with Billy Beane, had a great segment with Whitey Herzog and the new ump to go into the HOF, had great hot stove information from Heyman and Verducci, and they do great information pieces on players. It's a baseball fanatic's dream network.
