Pedro Gomez (sports reporter)
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Pedro Gomez (born c. 1965) is a television reporter for ESPN's SportsCenter show.
Gomez spent his youth in Cuba and Miami, Florida. After graduating from college, he went on to cover the Oakland Athletics from 1990 to 1997 for The Sacramento Bee and San Jose Mercury News newspapers.
During his tenure as a writer covering the Athletics, Gomez, a lifetime baseball fan, covered major topics such as the Cincinnati Reds victory over the defending World Series champion A's in 1990, José Canseco's trade to the Texas Rangers for Ruben Sierra in 1992, Rickey Henderson's 1,000th stolen base, and other moments of relative importance to the team.
He gained much experience during his seven year period as a writer for those newspapers. His work in Sacramento, San Jose and as a national baseball writer for the Arizona Republic in Phoenix led to ESPN's hiring of him during the 1990s to work at Sportscenter. Gomez is not an anchorman, but he specializes in working during baseball's pre-season leagues as well as being assigned to follow Barry Bonds.
Gomez, being from Cuba and then Miami, Fl, has been assigned by ESPN to interview Barry Bonds many times, a fact which has many to joke about the duo.
Apart from that, Gomez has also written articles on multiple baseball-related topics, and interviewed a large number of other baseball players, such as Moises Alou and others.
