Peter Gilray Schmuck is an American sportswriter.

Peter Schmuck has been a reporter and sports columnist

Columnist

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 for the Baltimore Sun since 1990, and has been named Maryland Sportswriter of the Year five times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association

National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association

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. He primarily writes about baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 and is host of a sports talk show

Talk show

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 on WBAL

WBAL (AM)

WBAL is a news-talk radio station located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. WBAL broadcasts on a clear channel frequency with 50 kilowatts of power. Owned by the Hearst Corporation, WBAL's tri-mast transmitters are located in Randallstown, Maryland...

 AM

AM broadcasting

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 1090. He also serves as co-host on a weekly political talkshow on WBAL and writes a blog entitled "The Schmuck Stops Here" on the Baltimore Sun Web site.

Schmuck was elected president of the Baseball Writers Association of America

Baseball Writers Association of America

The Baseball Writers' Association of America is a professional association for baseball journalists writing for daily newspapers, magazines and qualifying Web sites. The BBWAA was founded on October 14, 1908, to improve working conditions for sportswriters in the early part of the 20th century...

in 2005.