The longtime Newsday baseball writer charged through life as an indefatigable force of will. Tom Verducci says goodbye to his friend and mentor.
Joe Donnelly, a longtime baseball writer at Newsday, died Sunday at age 87.
He is gone now, but allow me to introduce you to Joe Donnelly. It is worth your time.
You may be too young, and he was too humble for that name to be familiar, but if you love baseball, appreciate the fading craft of writing and admire an honest life without pretense, you need to know Joe.