Keith Olbermann

At 65 years old, Keith Olbermann has this physical status:

Keith Theodore Olbermann (born January 27, 1959) is an American sports and political commentator and writer.

He now works with ESPN. Olbermann spent the first 20 years of his career in sports journalism.

In the 1980s, he was a sports reporter for CNN and for local television and radio stations, receiving the Best Sportscaster award from the California Associated Press three times.

From 1992–97, he co-hosted ESPN's SportsCenter.

He was a producer and anchor for Fox Sports Net and a host for Fox Sports' coverage of Major League Baseball from 1998 to 2001. On MSNBC, Olbermann anchored the weeknight political commentary show Countdown from March 2003 to January 2011.

He was lauded for his sharp criticism of right-wing and conservative politicians, as well as public figures.

Despite being characterized as a "liberal," he has attempted to avoid being identified politically, saying, "I'm not a liberal."

I'm an American. "From 2011 to March 30, 2012, he was the chief news officer of the Current TV network and the host of a Current TV show Countdown with Keith Olbermann."

Olbermann appeared on ESPN2 and TSN2 from July 2013 to July 2015, as well as TBS' Major League Baseball postseason coverage. Olbermann's web series The Closer with Keith Olbermann, which chronicled the 2016 US presidential race, was later renamed The Resistance after losing in May to some baseball play-by-play assignments.

Early life

Olbermann was born in New York City, son of Marie Katherine (née Charbonier), a preschool coach, and Theodore Olbermann, a commercial architect. He is of German origins. Jenna Olbermann and his younger sister Jenna (b. ). In Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 1968, the children were raised in a Unitarian household. He attended the Hackley School, a private Ivy League Preparatory school in Tarrytown, near Tarrytown.

Olbermann began to play baseball at a young age, a passion he inherited from his mother, who was a lifelong New York Yankees fan. He often wrote about baseball card collecting as a youth and appeared in numerous sports card-collecting periodicals from the mid-1970s. In Sports Collectors Bible, Bert Sugar's 1979 book, which is considered one of the most important early books for trading card enthusiasts, he is also mentioned.

Olbermann began his television career as a play-by-play announcer for WHTR while at Hackley. He enrolled at Cornell University at the age of 16. He graduated from Hackley in 1975. Olbermann, a student-run commercial radio station in Ithaca, served as the sports director for WVBR, a student-run commercial radio station. Olbermann graduated from Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1979 with a BS in communications.

Personal life

Olbermann suffers from a mild case of celiac disease as well as restless legs syndrome. He sustained a head injury while hopping onto a New York City Subway train in August 1980. The head injury has permanently disrupted his balance, resulting in his avoidance of driving. He, alongside Bob Costas, support the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation as an honorary board member.

Theodore Olbermann's father died on March 13, 2010, after suffering from colon surgery the previous September. His mother died a few months earlier. Olbermann cited the need to spend time with his father for taking a leave of absence right before his father's death, with occasional recording segments airing in his absence, addressing the American health care system and informing viewers about his father's health.

Olbermann is a lifelong baseball fan and teacher of the sport, as well as a member of the Society for American Baseball Research. The Card Memorabilia Associates (TCMA) published his book The Major League Coaches (1921–1973) in 1973, when he was 14 years old. A T206 card depicted Olbermann in a 1905-era New York Giants uniform in the September issue of Beckett Sports Collectibles Vintage. Fred Merkle, the New York Giants baseball player, has been chastised for his legendary baserunning mistake, according to him. He wrote the foreword to More Than Merkle, a book in which the author's request for amnesty for "Merkle's Boner" was released. Olbermann was also one of the foundings of the first experts' fantasy baseball league, the USA Today Baseball Weekly League of Alternative Baseball Reality, and he gave the league the nickname "LABR" in honor of its nickname. The foreword to the 2009 Baseball Prospectus Annual was written by Olbermann. Olbermann started Baseball Nerd, a baseball-related website in March 2009. For the Sports Collectors Digest, he has also written a series of articles on baseball cards.

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