Veteran sportswriter Tom Gage is off the bench and in the press box.
The former Detroit News writer is commenting on the baseball playoffs for Sporting News and will post World Series columns as a contributing writer.
He has a column today about Game 4 of the American League Championship Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals.
Tom Gage: "It broke my heart" to leave The Detroit News "because I was being removed from baseball coverage."
"We are thrilled to have him writing for us," editorial director Stephen Miller tells Deadline. "Tom is finishing out his Hall of Fame season where he belongs, in the press box, and doing what he loves, writing baseball."
Miller referred to a July ceremony at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., where Gage received the annual J.G. Taylor Spink Award "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing."
At Sporting News' site, Miller says Gage is "providing our national audience with the same insight and style Detroit Tigers fans have known the past 36 years.”
Sporting News, founded in 1886 and nicknamd the "bible of baseball" when it was a weekly print publication, has been digital-only since 2013.
Gage, 66, in March left the Detroit daily after being bumped from his baseball beat. The Grosse Pointer tweeted that his News reassignment was "not my doing" and that he "will greatly miss" covering the Tigers. In an address at Cooperstown last summer, he said: "When I walked away from The News in March because I was being removed from baseball coverage despite reaching this pinnacle, it broke my heart."
This week, he tweets:
Happy, and honored, to be at the ALCS in Toronto, writing for The Sporting News - @sportingnews
— Tom Gage (@Tom_Gage) October 19, 2015
