Steve Buckley (journalist)
Steve Buckley (born 1956) is an American journalist and longtime sports writer. He began his career at the Westfield Evening News, then moved to the Portland Press Herald, and became a regular columnist for the Boston Herald from 1995 to 2018. In 2018 he joined The Athletic. Buckley also appears on Boston radio at WEEI, where he has been a regular on The Big Show since 1995, and he makes frequent TV appearances on CSN New England and WBZ-TV. Before the Herald, he wrote for the National Sports Daily.
Buckley is a member of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. In 1999 he wrote and produced the documentary I’ll be Seeing You: An American Story of World War II for NECN, which earned him a New England Emmy for best sports feature in 1998. He has been a frequent guest on NESN’s SportsDesk and has written for Boston Magazine, Yankee Magazine, and other outlets. He is the author of several books, including Red Sox: Where Have You Gone? (2005); The Best Boston Sports Arguments (2006, with Jim Caple); and Wicked Good Year (2009), about the Celtics, Red Sox, and Patriots in 2007.
From 2017 to 2018 Buckley hosted the Two Outs podcast on WEEI with Alex Reimer, focusing on LGBTQ+ issues in sports. He also organizes The Old Time Baseball Game in Cambridge, celebrating early baseball with authentic wool uniforms. A Cambridge native and a 1978 graduate of UMass Amherst, Buckley now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. In January 2011 he publicly came out as gay, and he has occasionally served as a guest host on The Big Show.
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