John Shea
National Baseball Writer
The Chronicle
About this Author
John Shea is the San Francisco Chronicle's national baseball writer and columnist. He is in his 33rd year covering baseball, including 28 in the Bay Area. He wrote three baseball books, including Rickey Henderson's biography ("Confessions of a Thief") and "Magic by the Bay," an account of the 1989 World Series.
Awards & Recognition
Shea has won several Associated Press Sports Editors awards, including first place in the nation for a World Series game story.
He's a two-time Bay Area chairman of the Baseball Writers' Association of America and created the Bill Rigney Good Guy Award, given each year to a Giant and Athletic who is most accommodating to the media.
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