Mike Vaccaro
American sportswriter
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Michael Vaccaro Jr.[1] (January 2, 1967) has been the lead sports columnist for the New York Post since November 2002. Previously, he has worked as a columnist at The Star-Ledger, The Kansas City Star, and the Times Herald-Record of Middletown, New York. He was also a sports editor of the Northwest Arkansas Times, and was appointed to that position in 1991.
January 2, 1967
Mike Vaccaro | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michael Vaccaro Jr. January 2, 1967 West Hempstead, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Chaminade High School |
| Alma mater | St. Bonaventure University |
| Subject | Sports |
| Spouse | Leigh Hursey |
Vaccaro has won over 50 writing awards since beginning his career in 1989 as a reporter for the Olean Times Herald, where his primary beat was St. Bonaventure University basketball.
Early life and career
Born in West Hempstead, New York,[1] on January 2, 1967,[2][3][4][5] Vaccaro is the son of Michael and Ann McMahon Vaccaro.[1][6] His first published work appeared in 1979, a sports cartoon submitted at age 12 to New York Newsday's "Kidsday" page,[3] which led, that summer, to employment that summer, credited as "Kidsday Staff Artist".[7] Vaccaro later attended Chaminade High School and St. Bonaventure University,[8] graduating in 1989.[9][10]
Between 2005 and 2009, Vaccaro authored three books, including Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred Year Rivalry Between the Yankees and Red Sox, From the Very Beginning to the End of the Curse, followed, two years later, by 1941: The Greatest Year in Sports,[11] and, in 2009, by his in-depth recreation of the 1912 World Series, The First Fall Classic : The Red Sox, the Giants, and the Cast of Players, Pugs, and Politicos who Reinvented the World Series in 1912.[12] 2026 saw the publication of Vaccaro's next book, Bosses of the Bronx : The Endless Drama of the Yankees Under the House of Steinbrenner.[13]
Personal life
In the opening "Acknowledgments" section of his first published book (Emperors and Idiots in 2005), Vaccaro concludes with one directed towards his wife, the former Leigh Hursey,[2] whose smile on the day that work was published is characterized as "matched in my memory only by the one I wore the day I met her".[6] As of 2007, the couple resided in Hillsdale, New Jersey.[14]