Bill Christine (born Willard M. Christine, Jr., August 5, 1938) is an American former sportswriter, author, and publicist, dealing primarily with baseball and horse racing, who served briefly as sports editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and, for roughly the final half of his career, as a nationally syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
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Born | August 5, 1938[3][4][5] |
Education | Southern Illinois University Carbondale[6] |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, author, publicist |
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Awards | Eclipse Award, Outstanding Newspaper Writing (1984)[21] David F. Woods Memorial Award (1991, 1992)[22] |
Christine was born in Illinois on August 5, 1938, to Willard M. Christine and Bernice J. Walsh.[23][24][2][25] He graduated from Assumption High School in 1956,[6] and later from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.[26] While attending SIUC, he also reported on sports for the Southern Illinoisan.[7]
One of the sport's all-time good guys, Bill Christine, is out with a new book 'Bill Hartack – The Bittersweet Life of a Hall of Fame Jockey.' And he'll be signing (and no doubt selling) copies at Santa Anita on Saturday starting at 10:30 a.m. outside Champions! Gifts & Apparel. It's also available at Barnes & Noble. I haven't read the book, but if Bill wrote it, it's got to be good.