Joel Sherman
Joel Sherman has covered baseball since 1984, regularly as a beat reporter or columnist since 1989. He worked at United Press International covering all sports from 1984-88. He joined The New York Post in 1989 to be an investigative sports reporter for what was then a newly added Sunday paper. On his second day of work, the New York Yankees beat reporter, Michael Kay, resigned to join the Daily News and Sherman a few weeks later was made an offer he could not refuse — take over the Yankees beat. Sherman became a Baseball Columnist in 1996.
Sherman has long worked in radio and TV, notably since 2013 with The MLB Network, where he has collected three Emmys for his work on MLB Tonight. Sherman is also the author of “Birth of a Dynasty: Behind the Seams with the 1996 Yankees” and is currently working as an associate producer on a documentary about the 1990 Yankees based on a series of articles he wrote for The Post and due out on Peacock early in 2023. Sherman has twice won the New York State Associated Press prize for Best Sports Column.
Sherman is a graduate of New York University. He was somehow the starting point guard and captain of his sixth-grade team at PS 272 that included John Salley, who would play 12 years in the NBA and be part of four championship teams.
Twitter:@Joelsherman1
Jon Heyman
Jon Heyman has covered baseball since 1987, when he began the journey by flying with other new writers on Gene Autry’s small private plane to Palm Springs to meet the Angels for spring training. Heyman spent eight years as Angels and then Yankees beat writer before moving on to work as a columnist and insider.
After starting at the Copley Los Angeles newspapers, Heyman moved on to Newsday where he spent 16 years as a beat writer, national baseball columnist and finally sports columnist. Before going to the New York Post this year as a baseball columnist, Heyman worked for national publications for most of the past 15 years, starting with Sports Illustrated, then moving on to CBSSports.com and the start-up FanRag.
Heyman is a veteran TV and radio person who began with MLB Network at its inception in 2009 and has worked at WFAN or more recently its parent company Audacy since 2007. He was a regular on the popular Mike and the Mad Dog Show before moving on to the Joe and Evan Show at WFAN.
Heyman is a 1983 graduate of the Medial School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is a native of Santa Fe, NM, which doesn’t have an MLB team, and grew up in Cedarhurst, NY, on Long Island, attending Lawrence (NY) High School.
Twitter: @JonHeyman