Peter Gammons to leave ESPN

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Baseball’s annual winter meetings have marked a new beginning for several careers. But for ESPN’s Peter Gammons, this year’s meeting is marking an end.

ESPN announced today that Gammons, who is in the writers wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is leaving the network when the meetings conclude Thursday.

“My decision to leave ESPN and move on at this point in my life has been conflicted,’ Gammons said in a statement. ‘I owe a great deal of my professional life to ESPN, having spent more than half of my 40 years in journalism working for the network, and the choice to move on was made with nothing but the strongest feelings for the people with whom I worked. ESPN gave me a great deal more than I gave it, and will always be a huge part of who I am.’

There was no mention of retirement on Gammons’ part, leaving open the possibility that he could land with another media outlet, perhaps online.

Gammons, 64, was a reporter/analyst with ESPN for 20 years. He began his career as a baseball reporter in 1969 at the Boston Globe, where he pioneered such staples as the Sunday baseball column.

-- Kevin Baxter in Indianapolis
UPDATE
Gammons will join MLB Network. You can read updated story here.