Hall of Fame baseball writer Tom Gage joins Sporting News for playoffs

A baseball Hall of Famer is joining SportingNews.com for the playoffs.
 
Tom Gage, the 2015 J.G. Taylor Spink Award winner, will be reporting on the American League Championship Series and World Series for SportingNews.com.

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“We are honored to have Tom Gage join our team this postseason,” said Steve Miller, editorial director of SportingNews.com. “We think it only fitting that the Spink Award winner should complete his Hall of Fame season by providing our national audience with the same insight and style Detroit Tigers fans have known the past 36 years.”

Happy, and honored, to be at the ALCS in Toronto, writing for The Sporting News - @sportingnews

— Tom Gage (@Tom_Gage) October 19, 2015

It has been a season of highs and lows for Gage, who covered the Tigers from 1979-2015 for the Detroit News. After the News removed Gage from the Tigers beat prior to this season, he moved to Foxsports.com, but that site laid off all its regional reporters in June. He spent the summer writing occasionally for The Associated Press and MLB.com.
 
When Gage was honored in Cooperstown, N.Y., this summer, he spoke humbly and eloquently of his love for the game. From the Detroit News coverage of the event:
 
“Who am I?” asked Gage. “Well, if you’ve ever loved baseball all your life, I am you. If your first memory of watching TV is a baseball game, I am you. If you couldn’t wait for the first day each spring that the new baseball cards were out, once again, I am you. What an honor. I am and always will be overwhelmed by it.”
 
Gage joins an already strong SportingNews.com MLB team that includes national baseball writer Jesse Spector and staff writer Ryan Fagan. Spector has covered playoff games in New York and Toronto this postseason while Fagan has been on the scene in Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis.
 
The J.G. Taylor Spink Award, presented annually at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing,” is named for the longtime driving force of The Sporting News, who served as publisher from 1914 until his death in 1962.