Peter Gammons was born and raised in Groton, Massachusetts and attended the University of North Carolina. He was hired by the Boston Globe in 1968 before finishing his senior year of college, and, by 1972, became the Red Sox beat writer. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1976 and eventually went to ESPN in 1990.

Gammons has been named National Sportswriter of the Year three times, and, while at ESPN, he was given the Baseball Hall of Fame’s J.G. Taylor Spink Award. He later worked for MLB Network and The Athletic, while also founding the annual Hot Stove Cool Music charity fundraiser in conjunction with the Foundation to Be Named Later and its Gammons Scholars, who in its first decade through 2025 included more than 300 underserved scholars who combined for a one percent college dropout rate.

Married for over 55 years to his wife Gloria, Gammons resides in Cape Cod.

Books by Peter Gammons

It's All About the Players: What I've Learned from Baseball's Best

by Peter Gammons - Memoir, Nonfiction, Sports

Peter Gammons is the preeminent baseball writer of his generation. His early calling card was his Sunday notes column in the Boston Globe, which combined baseball and pop culture to deliver a weekly joyride through the sport. His story from Game 6 of the 1975 World Series is still considered the greatest game story ever written on deadline, and led to his hiring by Sports Illustrated in 1976. Nearly every significant figure in the game has shared stories with Gammons. He details the symbiotic relationships between manager and general managers, catchers and pitchers, and second basemen and shortstops. He speaks to the marriage between rock n' roll and baseball, and, yes, tells the story of how Ted Williams claimed he could smell the wood burning on his bat. Now Gammons has put it all down on the page for baseball fans to treasure.