Bill Madden (sportswriter)

Bill Madden (sportswriter)

Bill Madden is an American sportswriter for the New York "Daily News". A member of the Baseball Writers Association of America, he has served on the Historical Overview Committee of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005, 2007 and 2008, helping to select candidates for the final ballots presented to the Veterans Committee. Madden grew up in New Jersey, and graduated from Bergen Catholic High School in Oradell. He was a sportwriter with UPI for nine years before he joined the "Daily News" in 1978, and covered the New York Yankees before becoming a columnist in 1989. He has written the books "Damned Yankees: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Life With "Boss" Steinbrenner" (1991, with Moss Klein), "Zim - A Baseball Life" (2001, with Don Zimmer), "Pride of October: What it Was to Be Young and a Yankee" (2003), and "Bill Madden: My 25 Years Covering Baseball's Heroes, Scoundrels, Triumphs and Tragedies" (2004).

External links

* [http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/columnists/madden/index.html Madden's daily column]


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