Craig Calcaterra is the writer and editor of the daily baseball, news, and culture newsletter, Cup of Coffee, and 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).
Craig was a litigation attorney for 11 years, handling civil, criminal and sometimes political matters. In 2009 Craig upended his life in all the best ways to get out of the practice of law into writing about baseball when he became the lead national baseball writer for NBC Sports, where he launched and edited the baseball blog HardballTalk. He also wrote things for National Public Radio, Bloomberg News, MSNBC, Yahoo, Bleacher Report, Baseball Prospectus and The Hardball Times and made television appearances, on MLB Network, NBC Sports Network, NBC Nightly News, The BBC, ESPN and MSNBC. He is likewise a regular guest on talk radio and podcasts. 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.
Craig lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife Allison and his 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.