About Jim Murray
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Jim Murray captured the hearts and minds of young and old alike with his literary genius.
From the Class of '43 at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), to the New Haven (CT) Register, to the now extinct Herald Examiner (Los Angeles), to TIME, INC. as the Hollywood correspondent, to being one of the founders of Sports Illustrated, who for 37 years was the premier sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
Jim Murray's illustrious career won him the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1990, and he was the 14-time winner of the National Sportswriter of the Year award. His outstanding work landed him a spot in the writers' wing in Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.
Personal
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Born: December 29, 1919, Hartford, CT
Deceased: August 16, 1998, Los Angeles, CA
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Career
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-Los Angeles Times, sports columnist 1961-1998
-Sports Illustrated, Founder 1953; West Coast editor 1959-61
-Time, Inc., West Coast cinema correspondent, 1948-1955
-Los Angeles Examiner, general assignment and rewrite man 1944-48
-New Haven (Conn.) Register, general assignment, police and federal beat reporter, 1943-44
Education
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-Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Elementary School, Hartford, CT, 1934
-William H. Hall High School, West Hartford, CT, 1938
-Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1943
Achievements
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| 1965 / 1977 |
National Headliner Award. |
| 1966 - 1967 |
Honored by the Television Academy Awards for writing contribution for the Andy Williams Show, Outstanding Variety Series. |
| 1972 |
Trinity College Alumni Medal. |
| 1977 |
Installed in the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame. |
| 1980 |
National Headliner Award, citation for outstanding sports writing. |
| 1982 |
Red Smith Award for extended meritorious labor in sports writing. |
| 1982 |
First sportswriter to win the Victor Award, conferred annually on outstanding athletes based on selections by sportswriters, editors and broadcasters across the country. |
| 1984 |
Associated Press Sports Editors Association Award for best column writing. |
| 1987 |
Pepperdine University, Doctor of Laws degree, honoris causa. |
| 1987 |
J.G. Taylor Spink Award for "meritorious contributions to baseball writing". |
| 1988 |
Award included induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY - July. |
| 1994 |
Victor Award XXBII Hall of Fame Award "in recognition for his remarkable contribution to sports journalism as a literary art form." |
| 1990 |
PULITZER PRIZE for Commentary, Columbia University, New York, NY. |
| 1991 |
Best Sportswriter Award, from the Washington (DC) Journalism Review. |
| 1997 |
Lincoln Werden Memorial Award for excellence in golf journalism. Presented by the New York Metropolitian Golf Writers Association. |
| 1998 |
Times Mirror Lifetime Achievement Award (for 37 years with the Los Angeles Times). |
| Lifetime |
Named "America's Best Sportwriter" by the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters 14 times (12 were consecutive years) |
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