Jayson Stark

American sportswriter and author who covers baseball for The Athletic. MLB Network Insider

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Jayson Stark Biography

Jayson Stark is a Hall of Fame award-winning writer and insider appearing across MLB Network's programming, including the Emmy Award-winning flagship studio show MLB Tonight, MLB Now and MLB Central.

Stark, who joined MLB Network in 2018, is the 2019 winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for "meritorious contributions to baseball writing" and will be presented with the award in Cooperstown in July, during the Hall of Fame's annual induction weekend. In addition to his work at MLB Network, he is also a senior baseball writer at The Athletic and the host of "Baseball Stories" on Stadium TV.

In his profile on the Hall of Fame's website following the Spink Award announcement, Stark was described as "a curator for all things weird, wacky, unique, statistically inclined and historically rare in the game." His popular "Useless Information" column at The Athletic is a regular collection of notes, quotes, numbers, oddities and laughs. And in his previous stops at ESPN.com and the Philadelphia Inquirer, he was the creator and author of the nationally syndicated "Baseball Week in Review" column, which looked at the sport in a similar irreverent vein.

Before arriving at MLB Network and The Athletic, Stark spent 17 years covering baseball for ESPN and ESPN.com. Besides writing columns for the website, he made numerous television appearances on Baseball Tonight, SportsCenter and Outside the Lines, and won an Emmy for his work on Baseball Tonight. He was also a regular guest on the Mike and Mike show, where he contributed his famous weekly trivia question.

Stark previously spent 21 years covering baseball for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was twice named Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year. He appears regularly on radio stations around the country and formerly hosted "The Jayson Stark Show" on 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia.

He is the author of three books, "Wild Pitches: Rumblings, Grumblings and Reflections on the Game I Love" (Triumph Books, 2014), "The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History" (Triumph Books, 2006) and "Worth The Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies" (Triumph Books, 2009).

In 2019, Stark was honored with the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing, voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, which is awarded during the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cooperstown, New York. He was a finalist for the 2019 National Sports Media Association's National Sportswriter of the Year Award. In May 2017, Stark was inducted into the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He was honored in 2010 by Penn State's Foster Conference for Distinguished Writers, for his books and other work. Stark also appeared in the 2014 film, "Million Dollar Arm," starring Jon Hamm. And in 2018, Topps issued an actual Jayson Stark baseball card.

Jayson Stark Videos

  • Jayson Stark Joins Keith Olbermann To Discuss Pete Rose - YouTube

Jayson Stark Books

  • Wild Pitches: Rumblings, Grumblings, and Reflections on the Game I Love
    Wild Pitches: Rumblings, Grumblings, and Reflections on the Game I Love
  • Worth the Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies
    Worth the Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies
  • The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History
    The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History

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