Peter Gammons

About the Author

PETER GAMMONS was born and raised in Groton, Massachusetts and attended the University of North Carolina. He was hired by the Boston Globe in 1968 before finishing his senior year of college, and, by 1972, became the Red Sox beat writer. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1976 and eventually went to ESPN in 1990. Gammons has been named National Sportswriter of the Year three times, and, while at ESPN, he was given the Baseball Hall of Fame’s J.G. Taylor Spink Award. He later worked for MLB Network and The Athletic, while also founding the annual Hot Stove Cool Music charity fundraiser in conjunction with the Foundation to Be Named Later and its Gammons Scholars, who in its first decade through 2025 included more than 300 underserved scholars who combined for a one percent college dropout rate. Married for over 55 years to his wife Gloria, Gammons resides in Cape Cod.