Search results
Ira Berkow (born January 7, 1940) is an American sports reporter, columnist, and writer. He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which was awarded to the staff of The New York Times for their series How Race Is Lived in America.
Ira Berkow - The New York Times. Recent and archived work by Ira Berkow for The New York Times. Latest. on baseball. A Baseball Legend Wrestles With Removing His Former Boss’s Statue.
Sep 22, 2020 · Many years ago, Ira Berkow was sitting on an airplane. Next to him was Muhammad Ali. They were about to head to Chicago and … well, let Berkow tell the story: “The flight attendant came by and...
Ira Berkow became a sports writer for The New York Times in March 1981. Previously, from 1965 to 1967, he was a sports writer with the Minneapolis Tribune and from 1967 to...
Mr. Berkow was a runner-up for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. In addition to his publishing credits, Mr. Berkow wrote the HBO documentary film,...
Berkow surely is the only person living who knew Hank Greenberg (wrote his biography, “Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life”), Moe Berg (the mysterious catcher that spied for the OSS during WWII), and the great Koufax. That makes Berkow more than uniquely qualified to talk about Jews in baseball.
Ira Berkow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist for the New York Times whose pieces appear under the banner "Sports of the Times." Berkow began his association with the New York Times in March of 1981, overlapping for a few months with his friend and mentor, the notable columnist Red Smith.
