Derrick Goold

Derrick S. Goold (born July 21, 1975) is an American author and sportswriter best known for his work for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Goold has been honored for feature writing and investigative reporting for his work covering baseball, hockey and college athletics. He is also a contributor to Baseball America and an on-air talent for several St. Louis, Missouri, radio stations.

Goold was president of the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 2016 after serving as vice president in 2015.

Early life Goold was born in Elgin, Illinois, on July 21, 1975, and moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 1983. He attended Centaurus High School in Lafayette, Colorado, rival high school of Cardinals General Manager John Mozeliak's Fairview High School. Goold earned the rank of Eagle Scout while in high school. He graduated in 1993 and enrolled in the University of Missouri. A recipient of the Jack Buck Award,

Career Goold began his career in 1997 as a staff writer at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. Initially he was a prep writer covering St. Tammany Parish and New Orleans city schools. He was awarded the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Prep Writer of the Year award for 1998–1999 and won Best Prep Feature in 2000. He went on to cover Louisiana State University football and baseball as well as women's basketball before leaving the paper in 2000 to work for the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News. as well as appearing frequently on KMOX and 101 ESPN Radio. He also hosts a podcast, titled The Best Podcast In Baseball. Goold has over 114,000 followers on Twitter.

Personal life Goold lives in St. Louis with his wife Erika and his son. The couple met at the University of Missouri and married in 2000. Erika worked for KSDK, the city's NBC affiliate before taking a job as publicist for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. She is currently the Senior News Director for Business, Engineering and Innovation at Washington University in St. Louis.

Goold is an avid collector of baseball cards, often writing stories on players who share his interest.

He also collects comic books, a passion that began when he bought Amazing Spider-Man#270 in his youth. Many years later, he was invited to write a letter which appeared in Amazing Spider-Man#700. He also contributed as a writer to the comic Home Brew: Handcrafted Tales From the Gateway City, published by Ink and Drink Comics, a collective of comic book writers, artists and enthusiasts from around the St. Louis area. On September 29, 2019, Goold performed CPR on a videographer who suffered a heart attack and stroke at Busch Stadium; the stadium doctor stated Goold's actions "probably saved [the videographer's] life."

Books In 2012, Goold wrote 100 Things Cardinals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, a collection of stories, facts, achievements and signature calls from the 125-year history of the St. Louis Cardinals. The foreword was written by Stan Musial.

Awards and honors 1998-1999—Louisiana Sports Writers Association Prep Writer of the Year 2013—Lee Enterprises President's Award for Innovation (video) 2015—Associated Press Sports Editors Beat Writing Award (3rd place), Missouri Associated Press Managing Editors Award for Best Spot Sports (1st place) 2016—Associated Press Sports Editors Beat Writing Award (1st place, circulation 75-175,000)