Nick Cafardo

Nicholas Dominic Cafardo (May 8, 1956 – February 21, 2019) was an American sportswriter and sports author. A longtime columnist and beat reporter for The Boston Globe, he primarily covered the Boston Red Sox. In December 2019, Cafardo was named the J. G. Taylor Spink Award recipient for .

Early life Cafardo was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts; his parents were immigrants from Italy. Cafardo covered the New England Patriots for the Globe when he wasn't covering the Red Sox. His "Sunday Baseball Notes" column in the Globe was nationally read. With Tom Glavine, he wrote None But the Braves: A Pitcher, a Team, a Champion (1996) and Inside Pitch: Playing and Broadcasting the Game I Love (2016), and contributed to NESN reports covering the team. In January 2017, Cafardo received the Dave O'Hara Award from the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), recognizing his long and meritorious service to BBWAA Boston.

On December 10, 2019, Cafardo was posthumously named the recipient of the 2020 J. G. Taylor Spink Award, given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, for "meritorious contributions to baseball writing."

Personal life Cafardo and his wife, Leeanne, were married in 1979 and lived in Plymouth, Massachusetts.