James Patrick Murray was an American sportswriter at the Los Angeles Times from 1961 to 1998. Many of his achievements include winning the NSSA’s Sportswriter of the Year award an astounding 14 times.
In 1990, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his 1989 columns, and the Baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the J. G. Taylor Spink Award in 1987. Cited as an influence by countless sports journalists, Murray was a fixture at the Los Angeles Times for over 30 years.
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