John Shea

John Shea (born 1958) is an American sports journalist, New York Times bestselling author https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2020/05/31/hardcover-nonfiction/ and biographer for Willie Mays and Rickey Henderson. He and Mays authored “24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid” (St. Martin’s Press, 2020). He and Henderson authored “Off Base: Confessions of a Thief” (HarperCollins, 1992). He is the award-winning national baseball writer at the San Francisco Chronicle and member of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America and Baseball Hall of Fame voter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Writers%27_Association_of_America. He was the consulting producer as well as an on-camera presence in the HBO documentary, “Say Hey, Willie Mays!” https://www.hbo.com/movies/say-hey-willie-mays

John Shea Biography

John Terrence Shea Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised in Mill Valley, California, and has four brothers, Terry, Mike, Dan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Shea_(producer) and Frank. He graduated from Tamalpais High School and San Diego State University, where he obtained a degree in Journalism. He has two children, Jan and Tereza, and lives in Marin County. He covered the San Diego Padres through 1987 and the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s from 1988 through 2024. He has written Sunday baseball columns every year since 1986. He won several sportswriting awards from Associated Press Sports Editors including a national first-place honor for his account of Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. In 2010, he won first place for feature writing from the California News Publishers Association. https://cnpa.com/cja2019/print/gallery/Sports_Feature_Story_19_Sports_Feature_Story_(DA).html In his youth, he contributed to a magazine his older brothers produced, and he created a baseball card game and independent adult softball league. He was recipient of the Marino Pieretti Memorial Trophy in 2012 for his appreciation and promotion of baseball history, presented by the San Francisco Old-Timers Baseball Association. He was named a Positive Alliance Coach of the Year in 2012 for his contributions to girls sports.

Books

24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid (Willie Mays’ memoirs, New York Times bestseller), 2020.

Off Base: Confessions of a Thief (Rickey Henderson’s autobiography), 1992.

Shinjo, (Japanese language book on baseball player Tsuyoshi Shinjo), 2003.

Magic By the Bay: How the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants Captured the Baseball World, 1990.

Long Schott: Building Homes, Dreams and Baseball Teams (biography of Oakland A’s owner Steve Schott), 2022.

References

John Shea on "Say Hey, Willie Mays!" documentary (Nov 11, 2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTxabMw044Q

Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune (May 3, 2020): https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/mlb/story/2020-05-03/hall-of-famer-willie-mays-sportswriter-john-shea-new-book-24-life-stories-and-lessons-from-the-say-hey-kid

Zack Ruskin, San Francisco Chronicle (May 10, 2020): https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/longtime-friendship-fosters-new-willie-mays-memoir

Maria Guardado, MLB.com (May 13, 2020): https://www.mlb.com/news/willie-mays-memoir-john-shea-interview

Tyler Kepner, New York Times (May 14, 2020): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/sports/baseball/willie-mays-book.html

Reed Tucker, New York Post (May 16, 2020): https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/these-tricks-made-willie-mays-the-best-entertainer-in-baseball/

External links

w/Abby Phillip, CNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu0qcFIUwDA

w/Brian Kenny, MLB Network https://www.mlb.com/video/john-shea-joins-mlb-now-to-talk-about-willie-mays

w/Jeremy Schaap, The Sporting Life http://m.espn.com/general/play?id=29241717&cast=8026447

w/Ron Barr, Sports Byline USA http://www.sportsbyline.com/broadcast/SBUSA/SBUSA_SHEA_051220.mp3

San Francisco Chronicle biography: https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/john-shea/

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