Ross Newhan


Ross Newhan is a former columnist for the Long Beach Press-Telegram and baseball writer for the Los Angeles Times before retiring in 2004. He garnered the 1997 Associated Press Sports Editors Award for his story on the sale of the Dodgers and was given the 2000 J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He is co-author of Coaching Baseball Successfully.
His son, David Newhan, is a former Major League Baseball player and later, a coach.
In 1998 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.