In hockey, it’s dubbed “The Hat Trick.”
That’s when an individual scores three goals in-a-game.
And the term for a triple in media circles has to be “The Rob Parker.”
The Martin Van Buren High School graduate who was recently inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame has touched all the bases – and more – in the world of media.
In print, he was the first black columnist at the Detroit Free Press in 1963 and the first black general sports columnist at Newsday in New York in 1995.
He has also written for The Detroit News, Times-Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the Daily News in New York and The Cincinnati Enquirer.
In Radio, Parker currently co-hosts The Odd Couple on Fox Sports Radio with Chris Broussard.
In Television he’s worked as a contributor to FS1’s Skip and Shannon: Undisputed, teaming up again with former debate partner Skip Bayless from ESPN’s First Take. He was also a frequent guest on Colin Cowherd’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd for television and radio. He’s worked at WDIV-TV in Detroit.
The 59-year-old Parker received his B.S. in journalism from Southern Connecticut State University and a Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
And he currently serves as an adjunct instructor at the Annenberg School of Journalism at the University of Southern California.
“I just want – and hope – I can inspire the next generation of sportswriters,” he told the Eagle.
He is.
Today, Rob Parker operates MLBbro.com – a media platform he created to provide daily coverage of Black and brown players all across Major League Baseball.
Eighteen percent of the league’s players were Black thirty years ago – in 2023 its down to 6.2 percent, he notes.
In fact, as amazing as it may sound – not a single American-born Black player was on either team’s roster in the 2022 World Series.
“When I created MLBbro, I envisioned a platform, that would solely cover this set group of 80-90 Black players in the league,”…
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