Jerry Green
“Once upon a time there was a boy who wanted to be a professional athlete. The rude awakening came at age 16, however, when he realized that he couldn’t throw a pass 10 yards, couldn’t kick a football, and couldn’t hit a curve ball. So the boy did the next best thing. He became a sports writer.”
Biography
Jerry Green (1928) grew up in New York, listening to the Giants and Yankees on the radio. Lacking the size and talent to play baseball and football, Green did the next best thing and turned his attention to sports reporting. For four decades he covered sports for the Detroit News, attending the World Series, Stanley Cup Finals, NBA Finals, Wimbledon, the British Open and the US Golf and Tennis Opens, the Masters and other PGA events, NCAA basketball tournaments, the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton, and Fiesta Bowls, NFL play-offs, and the Indy 500. One of only five journalists to have covered every Super Bowl, Green was awarded the Dick McCann Memorial Award in 2005 for his distinguished reporting on professional football.
Career Highlights
| 1952 | Started his career as a copyboy for the New York Journal-American |
| 1956 | Joined Associated Press |
| 1961 | Appointed Michigan sports reporter at AP |
| 1963 | Joined the Detroit News |
| 2005 | Awarded the Dick McCann Memorial Award |
