About Craig

Craig Calcaterra has been the writer and editor of Cup of Coffee since its launch in August 2020. Before that he was the lead national baseball writer for NBC Sports.com, where he launched and edited the baseball blog HardballTalk from 2009 through 2020. Craig has written the books Rethinking Fandom: How to beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at its Own Game (Belt Publishing 2022),  Stars of Major League Baseball (Abbeville Press 2023), and Legends of Major League Baseball (Abbeville Press, 2023).

In addition to his own publications, Craig has written for Bloomberg News, MSNBC, Yahoo, Bleacher Report, Baseball Prospectus and The Hardball Times. He has made television appearances on MLB Network, NBC Sports Network, NBC Nightly News, The BBC, ESPN, MSNBC, and the Australian Broadcast Corporation. He has made numerous appearances on National Public Radio and is a regular guest on talk radio and podcasts too numerous to name. Beyond baseball, Craig has written extensively about politics, culture, and travel.

Craig was the winner of the 2012 Joe Posnanski Award, honoring the top internet baseball writer of the year. In 2014, Craig was one of 24 writers selected out of 13,000 applicants to receive the inaugural Amtrak Writers Residency. He took his trip in June 2015 and wrote about it.

Before he was a baseball writer Craig was a litigation attorney for 11 years, handling civil, criminal and sometimes political matters. In 2009 he upended his life in all the best ways to get out of the practice of law and into journalism which, while not the smartest financial move ever, has brought him a great deal of happiness.

Craig lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife Allison and their cats. His daughter Anna and son Carlo are off to college.

You can reach Craig at ccalcaterra@gmail.com or on any of the usual social media platforms where he tends to go by his full name and isn’t that hard to find.