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2021 Jack Graney award winner.
Comes with a letter of authenticity.
Born in 1944 in Gettysburg, Pa., Lott grew up on his family?s farm a few miles from town. He developed a passion for baseball when he seven years old when he started playing catch with his Uncle John. His uncle built a batting tee out of pipe fittings and a radiator hose and taught him how to swing level and hit line drives.
?By the time I reached my late teens, however, it was clear my dream of major-league stardom was rapidly fading,? wrote Lott in his retirement column for The Athletic in October 2020. ?But by then I had another dream, which I never talked about because it seemed outlandish for a kid stuck on the family farm in 1960. My ambition was to cover a major-league baseball team. Forty years later, I finally did.?
Lott a attrapé la piqûre du journalisme lorsqu’il a été nommé le coéditeur de la section des sports à son école secondaire. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme de l’Université Penn State, il a déménagé en Ontario et a débuté sa carrière de journaliste, d’abord en tant que reporter généraliste pour le Newmarket Era de 1969 à 1975. Puis, jusqu’en 1980, il a été l’éditeur du Aurora Banner.
En 1980, il a ensuite enseigné le journalisme pendant 20 ans au Collège Centennial à Toronto. Tout en conservant sa passion pour le baseball! En 1998, il a fondé le site web TruNorth Baseball, un site mettant l’emphase sur les joueurs canadiens et les espoirs des Blue Jays, qu’il interviewait lors de ses voyages dans les stades des ligues mineures au Canada et aux États-Unis. Il a maintenu ce site pendant trois ans.
His work on TruNorth Baseball helped him land a freelance position, covering the Toronto Blue Jays, for the National Post in 2000. In 2004, he took early retirement from teaching to focus on his new career as a baseball writer with the National Post. He would excel in that position for 16 years, while also finding time to co-author, along with Shi Davidi, the 2013 book,?Great Expectations : The Lost Toronto Blue Jays Season.
Dès 2016, Lott, qui est d’ailleurs un excellent photographe à ses heures, est devenu le chroniqueur senior pour The Athletic Toronto. C’est deux ans plus tard qu’il a reçu le prix Sports Media Canada George Gross.
Il a continué à publier d’incroyables articles pour The Athletic et à aider de jeunes journalistes jusqu’à sa retraite en octobre 20202.
Looking back, Lott counts among his career highlights, covering Carlos Delgado?s four-home run game (September 25, 2003), Roy Halladay?s no-hitter in his first playoff game with the Philadelphia Phillies (October 6, 2010) and the Jose Bautista bat flip game (October 14, 2015).
