John Lowe

Honored in 2023 at the Baseball Hall of Fame with a career achievement award, John Lowe covered Major League Baseball and the Detroit Tigers for the Detroit Free Press from 1986 through the 2014 season. Named Michigan’s sportswriter of the year, Lowe covered a generation of baseball in Detroit from the 1987 Tigers playoff team to the 2012 Word Series and the playoff teams that followed.

Earlier in his career, Lowe was credited by his peers as developing the “quality start” metric for pitchers. Overall, he covered 147 World Series games, including 121 consecutive at one point, and 28 All-Star Games. Before coming to Detroit, he wrote about baseball for the Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He credits his career longevity to baseball fans. As he said in his Cooperstown speech in 2023, “Your interest in baseball made my career possible.”