Peter Gammons in Hospital

[johndoe]

This is mostly for Red Sox fans, or other baseball fans, but still. It made me sad.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2502295

Longtime ESPN Baseball analyst Peter Gammons is out of surgery and resting in intensive care after undergoing an operation to treat a brain aneurysm Tuesday. Gammons suffered the aneurysm Tuesday morning near his home on Cape Cod, Mass. He was airlifted to a Boston hospital, where the surgery was performed.

Gammons, 61, is probably the best-known baseball writer of his generation, first with the Boston Globe, beginning in 1969, then for Sports Illustrated, before joining ESPN in 1990.

He was honored with J.G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing during the 2005 Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y. He was selected in balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America.

He started his career as a reporter for the Boston Globe in 1969 and wrote a very popular weekly Sunday baseball column for many years. He has also worked for Sports Illustrated covering the National Hockey League, college basketball and Major League Baseball (1976-78, 1986-90).

In 1986, upon his return to Sports Illustrated as a senior writer following a second stay at the Globe, he wrote numerous stories covering some of baseball's most important news events, as well as authoring "Inside Baseball," Sports Illustrated's weekly baseball notebook.

Gammons primarily serves as a studio analyst for ESPN's Baseball Tonight, but he also does regular spots for SportsCenter, ESPNEWS and ESPN Radio and contributes to ESPN The Magazine. Beginning this season, he became a reporter for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. He is also a columnist and writes a popular Weblog for ESPN.com.

Gammons is the author of "Beyond the Sixth Game", a look at free agency.

Born April 9, 1945, Gammons is a native of Boston, raised in nearby Groton, Mass. He attended the University of North Carolina and is married to his wife, Gloria.

[ryan8472]

That's too bad. He may be a HUGE Red Sox fan and COMPLETELY biased ( ) but he knows a hell of a lot about the game, and seems like a good guy. I hope he's back doing Baseball Tonight as soon as he can!

[johndoe]

Aw, hes not biased, he just knows whos gunna win! It just so happens its the Red Sox every time! lol

[GODDESS6]

as a HUGE red sox fan, this is so sad to me~ i love watching him on t.v. during a real good red sox vs yankees show down & i love that he jammed w/ the players for charity~

[DavidMn]

Ive been lucky enough to meet him and he's absolutely one of the nicest people on earth. I heard today that he's resting comfortably.