If you want to watch interesting videos with major league players, read colorful questions and answer articles, read info about players that goes beyond the field, view old photos, take polls and learn a little about MLB history every day, then bookmark this blog by Christopher Smith (Twitter: @ChrisSmithET)
Smith (Smitty) came to The Eagle-Tribune in Sept. 2009 after spending 22 months as a sportswriter for the Southeast Missourian in Cape Girardeau, Mo. where he covered mostly high school sports and won an Associated Press Sports Editors award in the 2009 APSE writing contest.
Smith earned first place in the Sports Story Daily Class 2 category of the 2010 New England Newspaper & Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. His winning piece was a three-part series on concussions. He also was named CNHI 2010 Sports Writer of the Year for Division I.
Smith earned his master’s degree in newspaper, magazine and online journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He earned his bachelors in English right down the street at Merrimack College.
He has covered everything from Little League to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats to the PawSox to the Boston Red Sox for The Eagle-Tribune and has written stories on 2010 American League home run champion Jose Bautista, Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, 2007 Cy Young award winner CC Sabathia and several Red Sox players, including David Ortiz, Clay Buchholz, Carl Crawford, Tim Wakefield, John Lackey and Jacoby Ellsbury. He also has done Q&As with several baseball players, including 2006 AL MVP Justin Morneau, 2010 AL Cy Young winner Felix Hernandez, 2006 AL Rookie of the Year Justin Verlander and Red Sox All-Star third baseman Kevin Youkilis. Additionally, he has started to post videos on this website of players including, Cleveland closer Chris Perez.
Smith blogs about the Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball. He grew up watching the Red Sox and his first memory of the team is when he was 6 years old and watched Tony Pena catch for the 1990 Red Sox.
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