Sheldon Ocker

Ocker attended Buchtel High School in Akron, Ohio, graduating in 1960. He attended Ohio State University, and graduated with a degree in political science in 1964.[1] He worked for one year at the Sandusky Register, and was hired by the Akron Beacon Journal in 1967.[2] For the Beacon Journal, he covered high school sports for three years,[1] the Cleveland Cavaliers for ten years, and covered the Cleveland Indians from 1981 through 2013.[3] He was the President of the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 1985. Ocker was named the 2018 winner of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award.,[4][5] inducting him into National Baseball Hall of Fame.[6]

Sheldon Ocker is an American sportswriter.

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