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Tim Kurkjian Biography
Tim Kurkjian is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 10, 1956 in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. Baseball reporter who is best known for his many years of experience as an analyst and Major League Baseball journalist and analyst at ESPN. He has written several books about baseball, including Is This a Great Game or What? (2007) and I’m Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies (2016).
He is a weekly guest on The Dan Batard Show. Batard show.
In 1974, Kurkjian enrolled at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. While at Maryland, Kurkjian covered high school sports for his hometown newspaper, the Montgomery Journal. Immediately after graduating from Maryland with a B.A. in journalism in 1978, Kurkjian took an entry-level position with the Washington Star. By 1981, he became a staff writer. When the Star folded that year, he took a position with the Baltimore News-American. That paper also went out of business within two months of Kurkjian’s arrival. He began covering baseball as the Texas Rangers beat writer for The Dallas Morning News where he worked from 1981 to 1985. Kurkjian then covered the Baltimore Orioles for The Baltimore Sun beginning in 1986. He was a senior writer for Sports Illustrated from 1989 to 1997. In 1997, Sports Illustrated reassigned him to covering basketball. He served in this capacity for six months before accepting a job at ESPN as a baseball writer and television journalist in 1998 at 40 years old.
Kurkjian attended Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, where he played on the school’s basketball and baseball teams. At the suggestion of his basketball coach, Kurkjian began writing for the student newspaper, The Pitch, and the school’s yearbook, “The Wind-up.” He eventually became the sports editor of The Pitch and realized that journalism would be the surest means of fulfilling his childhood dream of making a living in professional sports. He graduated from the school in 1974.
He was married to attorney Kathleen Patrick, with whom there is one daughter, named Kelly. He is the brother to Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Stephen Kurkjian.
| Name | Tim Kurkjian |
| First Name | Tim |
| Last Name | Kurkjian |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Birthday | December 10 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place of Birth | Bethesda |
| Home Town | Maryland |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Sagittarius |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Kathy Kurkjian |
| Children(s) | Jeff Kurkjian, Kelly Kurkjian |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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On every day of the Major League Baseball season, from 1990 until 2010, Kurkjian cut every MLB box score out of a newspaper and taped them into a spiral notebook. Kurkjian estimates that this daily task, at 15 minutes per day over 20 seasons, consumed 40 days of his life. He stopped doing this due to the lack of newspapers printing box scores.
Tim Kurkjian Net Worth
Tim Kurkjian is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim Kurkjian's net worth $2 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He played basketball and baseball in the Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland. He then pursued a degree in journalism at the University of Maryland.
He was popular to imitate singing impressions of the likes of MLB players such as He became a popular person to imitate, inspiring vocal impressions from such MLB players as Tim Dillard and J.P. Arencibia. and J.P. Arencibia.
Timothy Bell Kurkjian (/ˈ k ɜːr k dʒ ən / ; born December 10, 1956) is a Major League Baseball analyst on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter. He is also a contributor to ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com.
| Net Worth | $2 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Journalist |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
He authored his first book, America’s Game, in 2000 and released his second book, Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod’s Heart to Zim’s Head—My 25 Years in Baseball in May 2007. In 2016, he published his book I’m Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love. He was the 1999 and 2007 Commencement speaker at his alma mater, Walter Johnson High School, the 2008 speaker at Seneca Valley High School, and also delivered the winter commencement speech at the University of Maryland on December 19, 2007.
In 2012, while Kurkjian and fellow ESPN analyst John Kruk were on their annual bus tour around the spring training facilities, a new craze was created called Kurkjianing where players would impersonate Tim Kurkjian during interviews. Some of the players that did this were Tim Dillard of the Brewers, J. P. Arencibia of the Rangers, and Elliot Johnson of the Rays.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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| Height | 5 ft 5 im |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
On November 26, 1983, Kurkjian married Kathleen Patrick. Kathy is a lawyer. The couple has one daughter, Kelly, an artist, and one son, Jeff, who hosts Jeff & Aimee in the Morning on KCYE radio in Las Vegas. Both Kelly and Jeff graduated from Syracuse University. His cousin is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Kurkjian and Bob Kurkjian who is an engineering teacher at the Learning Prep School in West Newton, MA.
Who is Tim Kurkjian Dating?
According to our records, Tim Kurkjian married to Kathy Kurkjian . As of December 1, 2023, Tim Kurkjian’s is not dating anyone.
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Facts & Trivia
Tim Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tim Kurkjian celebrates birthday on December 10 of every year.
Did Tim Kurkjian play baseball?
In his youth, in addition to playing baseball, young Kurkjian collected baseball cards, played tabletop baseball games and read anything baseball-related that he could. Kurkjian attended Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, where he played on the school’s basketball and baseball teams.
Is Tim Kurkjian still with ESPN?
After four decades of covering Major League Baseball, longtime writer and ESPN analyst Tim Kurkjian is the 2022 winner of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s Career Excellence Award (formerly the J.G. Taylor Spink award).
What is Tim Kurkjian salary?
| Salary: | $400 Thousand |
| Date of Birth: | Dec 10, 1956 (65 years old) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | 5 ft 4 in (1.65 m) |
What nationality is Tim Kurkjian?
American
How old is Tim Kirchen?
65 years (December 10, 1956)
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