T. R. Sullivan enters the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005 as the current President of the Major League Baseball Writer’s Association. The professional highlight comes in his 17th season as a baseball writer, including 13 on the beat covering the Texas Rangers and three as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s national baseball writer. No one in the Dallas-Fort Worth market has spent more years on the baseball beat.

A 1981 graduate of the University of San Francisco, Sullivan’s entire professional career has been in Texas, starting in Denison at the Herald after graduation and continuing at the Star-Telegram in 1985. By 1989 he was covering baseball and has never looked back.

Sullivan has seen a lot. He has covered a plethora of World Series, starting with the 1989 Bay Area battle between the Giants and A’s that featured an earthquake, and most recently filling column inches on the first World Series to hit The Lone Star State, when the 2005 NL Champion Houston Astros took on the Chicago White Sox. 

With insight and integrity, T. R. has also covered and written the stories for many of baseball’s greatest moments, such as Nolan Ryan’s last two no-hitters and the perfect game pitched by Kenny Rogers. He was also on the scene for both Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds when they set new single-season home run records. 

In 1999 T. R. even found time to co-author the book “Nolan Ryan, the Road to Cooperstown” with Mickey Herskowitz and Nolan Ryan himself, where Nolan “shares his personal journey from the sandlots of Alvin through his record-breaking career, to his Hall of Fame election.”

Sullivan resides in Plano with his wife, Helen and teenage son, John.