Jayson Stark

Senior Writer, ESPN.com

Jayson Stark is a senior baseball writer for ESPN.com, writing several columns a week, including Friday’s Week in Review and Saturday’s Rumblings and Grumblings. He also appears as an analyst for ESPN’s Baseball Tonight and ESPN Radio.

Prior to joining ESPN.com, Stark worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 21 years, serving initially as the Philadelphia Phillies beat writer and then as national baseball writer and columnist. He also was the creator and author of the nationally syndicated Baseball Week in Review column, known for unearthing obscure, historic and humorous aspects of baseball, from 1983-1999. While with the Inquirer, Stark twice received the Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year award.

Stark also served as a columnist for Baseball America for 16 years and has written for ESPN The Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Sport, Inside Sports, Sporting News, Men’s Fitness and Athlon. His television work includes appearances for ESPN, Major League Baseball Productions, NFL Films and Philadelphia’s Comcast Sports Net. He is also a former baseball analyst for the Sports Fan radio network and a commentator on the Phillies’ pre-game radio show.

Born July 19, 1951, Stark earned a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University in 1973.

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