Bob Ryan - Basketball, Baseball and the world of Sports Journalism

Bob Ryan is a Sports Historian, author and retired journalist with the Boston Globe. He has been described as "the quintessential American sportswriter.” a basketball guru, and is well known for his coverage of the sport including his famous stories covering the Boston Celtics in the 70s and 80s. Famous sports journalist Bill Simmons proclaimed Mr. Ryan “the best basketball writer ever.”

In addition to his basketball coverage, he has a passion and love for baseball. He spent many years covering the Boston Red Sox and is an official baseball hall of fame voter.

He comes on the podcast to discuss his amazing career, his favorite stories from covering the Celtics and Red Sox, his current favorite basketball players, thoughts on hall of fame voting and the controversial steroid era, the tortured history of the Sacramento Kings and much more.