The Orioles press box at Camden Yards has been renamed after longtime Baltimore sports reporter Jim Henneman to honor his legacy.
The press box will be dedicated at a later date and be known as the Jim Henneman Press Box.
“I’m overwhelmed,” Henneman told The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday. “I can’t imagine any bigger compliment. This is like going into the Hall of Fame for me.”
Henneman has covered Baltimore sports for eight decades. The Baltimore native attended Calvert Hall and what is now Loyola Maryland, where he pitched and played basketball, and he worked in the clubhouse for the International League Orioles.
He began his career as a writer with The News American in 1958 until he became the public relations director for the Baltimore Bullets in 1968.
In 1973, he returned to The News American to become an Orioles beat writer until 1979. Henneman joined The Eveming Sun in 1980 and covered the team until 1995.
Sun, “]Henneman was the official scorer at Orioles home games from 1997 to 2019. In 2015, he published the book “60 Years of Orioles Magic.”
Recently, Henneman joined The Sun’s debate on whether Baltimore is a football or baseball city.
“I don’t think there’s any question that this was by far a baseball town before it was a football town,” he wrote to the The Sun. “But you could probably say that about any major city because it wasn’t until the 1950s when the NFL started to take hold.”
Henneman now covers the Orioles for Press Box as a columnist and contributor.
The press box at The Yard is being renamed after longtime Baltimore sportswriter and official scorer Jim Henneman
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