Comments on: Help Select The Best All-Time Boston Sports Columnists

By: Ralph Bertolucci

Ralph Bertolucci — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:49:44 +0000

what, no mention of Joe Giullotti? He was one of the best baseball writers on the Herald. Ater he retired joe became an official score keeper at Fenway.__My other choices are Timmy Horgan, Peter Gammons and Joe Fitzgerald. And an honorary mention of Will Mc. I knew Will, he was a regular guy, his fame never over-took him. He would lecture me on the evils of camel cigarettes that i smoked for some 45 years.

By: Leo Coughlin

Leo Coughlin — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:52:59 +0000

Obviously, a lot of young lads weighing in here who do not remember the very best Boston once had — Dave Egan, Record; Austen Lake, American; Bill Cunningham, Post and later Herald; Harold Kaese, Transcript and later Globe; Jerry Nason, Globe; Bill Liston, Post. Those were the best of a very good lot. Gone forever. Nothing good in sight — now it's all TV illiterates and the worst of all, the ESPN circus.

By: Bernie B

Bernie B — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:08:05 +0000

By: Bernie B

Bernie B — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:07:21 +0000

How about John Gilloly(sp) or Huck Finnegan or Bob Coyne (cartoonist)

By: Seapower

Seapower — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:07:38 +0000

Bob Ryan is the standard bearer but Peter Gammons, Will McDonough and Dan Shauhnessy are soooo ever so close as well it's a tough call. Austen Lake did pretty well after joinging the sports beat from being a straight type columnists.

By: corinne

corinne — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:09:43 +0000

Ray Fitzgerald- The Grandaddy of them all…

Will McDonough– … Fabulous, witty, candid, funny, yet called it VERY much like is was….I miss this guy!

Peter Gammons– WOW!! Baseball could not, would not be the same w/o PG's insights and observations– sending lots of warm wishes for MANY more years of PG's vision, intutiion and knowledge!

Leigh Montville— Absolutely fantastic…!

Bob Ryan— The next bearer of Ray Fitzgerald's mantle….

Jackie McMillan— The Lady has her stuff together, especially on that basketball court…..Hail Jackie, just keep it going girl!

Shauhnessy– Got to absolutley love the contraian "curly red-head"….!!!

By: gman

gman — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:10:03 +0000

i remember those columns as being classic…would love to re-rea that one from 84

By: Bill Brody

Bill Brody — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:50:46 +0000

Tim Horgan is without question the greatest sportswriter of all time.
He deserved world wide aclaim
His knowledge of the sports world could not be challenged

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:52:44 +0000

Yes, because nothing plays better to the “masses” than inside jokes about their favorite multi-sport, multi-media columnist, beat writer and radio star.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:41:38 +0000

I’d have to go with Montville as well; as someone else noted, regardless of the topic he could make it worth reading, which is probably about as good a compliment as a writer can get.

As far as his Friday football picks, the one that stands out the most for me is his one and only college pick when in November ’84 he not only called the correct final score, but had Doug Flutie winning the game with a Hail Mary pass as time expired.