Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist with Baseball America and foxsports.com, who also handles pre-game and post-game shows for Root Sports telecasts of the Colorado Rockies, and is an occasional analyst on MLB Network. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado, until its closure during spring training 2009. He began covering baseball in 1976. He is the former president of the Baseball Writers Association of America and has been a member since 1976. He was awarded the Spink Award by the BWAA in 2005.
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He was the 2000 recipient of the Shining Star Award for journalistic excellence, presented by the Colorado Press Association, becoming the first sports writer nominated for the award. Ringolsby is the 2005 recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award which was presented at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on July 30, 2006.[1] He was selected Colorado Sports Writer of the Year in 2005 and 2008, and was honored by the Wyoming Sports Hall of Fame for career achievement in 2009. He also received an honorary doctorate in letters from the University of Wyoming in the spring of 2009.
A native of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Ringolsby is a graduate of Cheyenne East High School, and a member of the school's Hall of Fame. He began his writing career as one-man sports staff for the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, the afternoon newspaper in Cheyenne, the day after he turned 17. He later worked for United Press International before beginning a career of covering Major League Baseball.
Ringolsby was a major beat writer for the Colorado Rockies for the Rocky Mountain News from 1992, the year before the Rockies played their first game, until Feb. 27, 2009, the day the paper folded. Ringolsby previously worked for the Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram (California Angels, March 1977-July 1980), the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle Mariners, July 1980-July 1983), the Kansas City Star-Times (Kansas City Royals, August 1983-February 1986), and the Dallas Morning News (Texas Rangers, March 1986-1991).[2]
Ringolsby is a co-founder of Baseball America, a member of the board of directors for the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation, and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research since 1979.
Ringolsby is a member of the executive committee of the National Western Stock Show, a member at the benefactor level of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, and a member of the board of directors of the Cowboy Joe Club at the University of Wyoming.
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