 Born in Lima, Ohio, on June 17, 1929,
legendary sportswriter Bud Collins had a more than 45 year career
as a sportswriter for The Boston
Globe. Collins started at The Globe in 1963, and during
his tenure at the paper covered virtually every sport in more than
50 countries. In addition to his sports coverage for The Globe, he also covered the
Vietnam war, politics, and wrote a travel column for the paper. He
has also written a number of books, magazine articles, and tennis
encyclopedias. In 1999, the Associated Press presented Collins with
the Red Smith Award, in recognition of his outstanding
sportswriting career. Along with his work in newspapers, Collins
also covered tennis on television for more than 40 years. He began
broadcasting tennis for CBS in 1968, when he joined the networks
coverage of the U.S. Open. Then in 1972, he moved to NBC to join
its coverage of Wimbledon. He continued to cover Wimbledon at NBC
for the next 35 years, and also regularly appeared on the networks
show "Breakfast at Wimbledon." In 2007, he left NBC and was hired
by ESPN to join its coverage of all four Grand Slam tournaments.
In recognition of his
contributions to tennis, he
was enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1994.
Collins was inducted into the National Sportscasters and
Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame on April 29,
2002. |