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'Dan Shaughnessy' is a sports columnist and reporter for ''The Boston Globe'' as well as a best selling author and television and radio sports personality. Shaughnessy grew up in Groton, Massachusetts is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Contents

Family

Career

Theo Epstein Column

Awards and Recognition

Trivia

Bibliography

External links

References

Family

Shaughnessy lives in Newton with his wife and three children. His son Sam plays for Boston College and the subject of his latest book, Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball. His daughter Sarah is a 2007 graduate of Harvard University as well as a four year player on the Harvard softball team, and his younger daughter Kate is also a softball player and 2007 graduate of Boston University. His wife Marilou holds a doctorate in psychology and practices in their hometown of Newton. The Shaughnessy family has also "adopted" a student from the METCO program, inviting him into their home and essentially making him a family member.^[1]

Career

Shaughnessy began his career as a beat reporter covering the Baltimore Orioles for the Baltimore Sun in 1977. He's been a sports writer for the Boston Globe for 20 years serving as the beat writer for the Boston Celtics and the Boston Red Sox.
Shaughnessy has authored or contributed to several sports related books. His best selling book, Curse of the Bambino details the travails of the Boston Red Sox and their search for a World Series championship after selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. He subsequently wrote "Reversing the Curse" after the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004.
He is a contributor to ESPN The Magazine, and a regular guest on a Sunday night sports show, "Sports Xtra"^[2]. Shaughnessy discusses sports and current events on radio shows airing on WTKK, as well as ESPN's Rome Is Burning and NESN's SportsPlus and Globe 10.0^[3].

Theo Epstein Column

In an October 2005 column he revealed information detailing nuances of the relationship between Theo Epstein and Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino, which may have contributed to Epstein's resignation as Red Sox General Manager.^[4][5] Shaughnessy and his fellow Globe writers have been accused by writers at the ''Boston Herald'' of routinely reporting information leaked from the Red Sox front office (the Red Sox are 17 percent-owned by The New York Times Company, the Globe's parent company).^[6] Just days prior to the Shaughnessy column, Herald columnist Tony Massarotti in his column accused Red Sox management of smearing Epstein and suggested the Globe's coverage of the negotiations may be conflicted because of the Times ownership in the team.^[7] In the weeks leading up to Epstein's decision, Sox owner John Henry himself said the leaks "had to stop".

Awards and Recognition

★ In 2002, Dan Shaughnessy, along with Sean McDonough, was awarded the Jimmy Award.^[8] The award honors 'individuals who have, over the years, committed themselves to the mission of Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund'. Shaughnessy himself has a daughter who successfully battled cancer. ^[9]

★ 7 time Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year

★ 5 Times selected as on of Americas top-ten sports columnists by Associated Press Sports Editors.^[10]

Trivia

★ On July 16, 2003, Shaughnessy served as witness for the prosecution in ESPN’s mock trial of Pete Rose.^[11]

★ Shaughnessy is referred to by many Red Sox fans as "CHB", from a phrase turned by Sox outfielder Carl Everett. While complaining about reporters who criticized him, he referred to "Gordon Edes and his curly-haired boyfriend."^[12] ESPN columnist Bill Simmons claims that shortly after the event, he shortened this to create the nickname "CHB".^[13] The abbreviation is now frequently used by Red Sox diehards at Sons of Sam Horn and has became the popular way to refer to Shaughnessy on the Internet. He has also been referenced by this nickname by Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling on the Sons of Sam Horn forum and on his own blog page.^[14][15] Shaughnessy himself indirectly acknowledged the nickname in a column mocking Schilling's blog page, posing a question from a fictional internet blogger called "CHB38".^[16] He has also been referred online and in print by the nicknames 'shank'^[17] and 'Shaughnasty'.^[18]

★ A blog page called Dan Shaughnessy Watch has been established to critique his columns.

★ Credited with popularizing the phrase "Red Sox Nation". The phrase was first coined by Boston Globe feature writer Nathan Cobb in an October 20, 1986 article about split allegiances among fans in Connecticut during the 1986 World Series between Red Sox and the New York Mets. Shaughnessy popularized it by using it in his 1996 book: At Fenway: Dispatches From Red Sox Nation.

★ In June 2007 in conjunction with a story about Shaughnessy, the Boston Phoenix conducted an online poll asking whether Dan Shaughnessy was the most hated man in Boston.^[18]

Bibliography

Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball - ISBN 0-618-72905-4
Reversing the Curse - ISBN 0-618-51748-0 (Hardcover), ISBN 0-618-71191-0 (Paperback)
The Legend of the Curse of the Bambino - ISBN 0-689-87235-6
The Curse of the Bambino – ISBN 0-14-200476-6
Fenway, Expanded and Updated: A Biography in Words and Pictures - with Stan Grossfeld -ISBN 0-618-73736-7 (Hardcover), ISBN 0-618-05709-9 (Paperback)
Spring Training: Baseball's Early Season - ISBN 0-618-21399-6
At Fenway: Dispatches from Red Sox Nation – ISBN 0-609-80091-4
Seeing Red: The Red Auerbach Story – ISBN 0-517-17217-8 (Hardcover), ISBN 1-55850-548-2 (Paperback)
Ever Green The Boston Celtics: A History in the Words of Their Players, Coaches, Fans and Foes, from 1946 to the Present – ISBN 0-312-06348-2
One strike away: The story of the 1986 Red Sox - ISBN 0-8253-0426-1

External links

★ Dan Shaughnessy's Current Columns: Boston Globe

★ Dan Shaughnessy Bio:WTKK

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★ On NECN to discuss the controversy over Theo Epstein

★ Dan Shaughnessy Watch

★ Dan Shaughnessy Bio at Sons of Sam Horn

★ Dan Shaughnessy Author/Illustrator Bio, Houghton Mifflin Company

References

1. Friends & family: Since kindergarten, they've been both. Tonight they move on.
2. “`XTRA' POINTS PUSH CH. 7 SHOW AHEAD OF `SPORTS FINAL'” BILL GRIFFITH
3. ''The Globe 10.0'' Presented by Verizon to Debut on June 26
4. Let's iron out some of this dirty laundry
5. Lucchino vs. Epstein: Media stew boils over
6. Theo Departs and the Blame Game Begins
7. Smear Campaign?
8. Jimmy Fund Honors WEEI's Glenn Ordway With Annual "Jimmy Award"
9. This news hits close to home
10. Fenway A Biography In Words and Pictures, , Dan, Shaughnessy, Houghton Mifflin Company, ,
11. Rose jury: Let him in
12. "A Curt response", Inside Track, the Boston Herald, published February 27, 2007, accessed February 27.
13. A few questions, a few links
14. Curt Schilling Contract (no contract until after season 2/22/07)
15. Q & A VIII, short one
16. Famous guest blogs in: Given 'invite,' Schilling issues direct answers
17. Shank-o-matic: How to write your own Dan Shaughnessy column Jerry Thornton
18. The Most Hated Man in Boston Adam Reilly
19. The Most Hated Man in Boston Adam Reilly