Tommy Holmes | |
Birth Date: | 5 November 1903 |
Birth Place: | Brooklyn, New York |
Death Place: | Brooklyn, New York |
Nationality: | American |
Occupation: | Sportswriter & author |
Years Active: | 1924–1957 |
Awards: | J. G. Taylor Spink Award |
Thomas Holmes (November 5, 1903 – March 25, 1975)[1] was an American sports writer who covered the Brooklyn Dodgers for the Brooklyn Eagle and the New York Herald-Tribune, from 1924 to 1957.
Holmes, who only had one arm, died in March 1975 at age 71.[2] [3]
He was posthumously awarded the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), announced in 1979 and bestowed in 1980.[4]