Tim Kurkjian ('78)

Tim Kurkjian is a baseball writer, analyst, host and reporter for ESPN and the Emmy-winning productions Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter. He also is an analyst in the booth for Monday Night Baseball and a senior writer ESPN.com.

Kurkjian has been covering major league baseball for 40 years, 10 as a beat writer for three different newspapers, then eight years as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated before joining ESPN in 1998. He authored his first book, "America’s Game," in 2000.  He followed that book with "Is This a Great Game, or What?" in 2007, then New York Times best seller "I’m Fascinated By Sacrifice Flies" in 2016.

With his son, Jeff, he hosts the baseball podcast "Is This a Great Game, or What?" He also is member of the Baseball Writer’s Association of America, which entitles him to vote annually on Baseball Hall of Fame inductions.  

Kurkjian grew up in Bethesda, Maryland and attended Walter Johnson High School, named for the great Washington Senators pitcher.  He graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science in journalism in 1978, and still resides in Maryland.