7th Annual Living Legends of the Dayton Daily News Archive, Honoring Hal McCoy

Please join us for the 7th Annual Living Legends of the Dayton Daily News Archive lecture, featuring Dayton Daily News sports writer, Hal McCoy, on Thursday, November 17, from 6:30-9:00 p.m. This event is free & open to the public and will take place in the Endeavour Room in the Wright State University Student Union. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the program begins at 7:00 p.m.

 Hal McCoy currently covers the Cincinnati Reds for Fox Sports Ohio and writes a blog, “The Real McCoy,” for the Dayton Daily News. He has covered the Reds since 1972 and is credited with coining the team’s nickname “the Big Red Machine.” McCoy was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association in 2015. In 2002 he was honored by the Baseball Writers Association of America as the winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, which recognizes writers “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing” each year during the induction ceremony at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

McCoy is the author The Real McCoy: My Half Century with the Cincinnati Reds (2015) and The Royal Reds: Baseball’s New Dynasty (1977). He also co-authored The Official Pete Rose Scrapbook (1985) with Pete Rose and Drawing Pete (2008) with Jerry Dowling.

McCoy graduated with honors from the School of Journalism at Kent State University where he played first base on a partial baseball scholarship.

 Beginning at 6:30, as well as following the program, guests may visit with Mr. McCoy as well as enjoy exhibits and light refreshments. Exhibits will feature columns, awards, and photographs documenting Mr. McCoy’s career, as well as items from the Dayton Daily News Archive.

 This series is sponsored collaboratively by Wright State’s Department of Communication, College of Liberal Arts, and the University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives. The Living Legends lecture series celebrates the Dayton Daily News Archive, an extensive collection donated to WSU by the newspaper.