Mike Shalin

Mike Shalin is a veteran of 35 years in sports journalism. The 1976 graduate of Wichita State University started with the wire services in New York in the 70s, moved to the New York Post from 1980-82 and then spent 22 years at the Boston Herald, covering the Red Sox for 12 years and then Boston College football and basketball before leaving the newspaper in 2005. He is now a freelancer in the Boston area, with varied duties including work as an official scorer at Fenway Park. Shalin, a Baseball Hall of Fame voter since 1989, co-authored a book entitled “Out By A Step, The 100 Best Players Not in the Baseball Hall of Fame and is the author of the 2011 release “Donnie Baseball, The Definitive Biography of Don Mattingly (Triumph). He also co-penned Gilles Villemure’s Tales From The Rangers Locker Room, as well as several books for young readers and has worked in radio and television. Shalin resides in Easton, Ma.