Sportswriter Jack Etkin '68 was at Fenway Park in Boston during the American League Championship Series, but his readers and the team he covers were 1,900 miles away in Denver practicing for the World Series.
Etkin covers the Colorado Rockies for the Rocky Mountain News and reported on the team's first-ever World Series appearance. Etkin, who arrived in Boston for Game 6 of the ALCS, was busy meeting story deadlines as the Boston Red Sox pulled off two home wins to advance to the World Series, which they won in four games.
Find Etkin's reporting at: www.RockyMountainNews.com/sports
Etkin received a B.A. in Economics. He was a Dean's List student, business manager of the Concordiensis and a member of Chi Psi. He went on to earn an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the reporting staff at The Kansas City Star. In 1986 Etkin wrote a book called Innings Ago about recollections of retired Kansas City baseball players.
Etkin joined the Rocky Mountain News in 1993, the same year the expansion Rockies joined Major League Baseball.