Tommy Holmes (sportswriter)

{{short description|American sportswriter (1903–1975)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Tommy Holmes

| image = Tommy_Holmes_(sportswriter).jpg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|11|05}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|03|25|1903|11|05}}

| death_place = Brooklyn, New York

| nationality = American

| occupation = Sportswriter & author

| years_active = 1924–1957

| awards = J. G. Taylor Spink Award

}}

Thomas Holmes (November 5, 1903 – March 25, 1975){{Cite web |last=Burgess |first=Bill |date=February 21, 2007 |title=Thomas Holmes---AKA Tommy Holmes |url=https://www.baseball-fever.com/forum/general-baseball/history-of-the-game/21726-meet-the-sports-writers/page8 |access-date=June 14, 2018 |website=baseball-fever.com}} was an American sports writer who covered the Brooklyn Dodgers for the Brooklyn Eagle and the New York Herald-Tribune, from 1924 to 1957.

Holmes, who only had one arm, died in March 1975 at age 71.{{Cite news |date=March 27, 1975 |title=Ex-Sports Writer Tommy Holmes Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20964980/exsports_writer_tommy_holmes_dies/ |access-date=June 14, 2018 |work=Hartford Courant |location=Hartford, Connecticut |page=62 |via=newspapers.com |agency=Associated Press}}{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Red |date=March 29, 1975 |title=On Tommy Holmes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20965042/on_tommy_holmes/ |access-date=June 14, 2018 |work=The Berkshire Eagle |location=Pittsfield, Massachusetts |page=18 |via=newspapers.com |authorlink=Red Smith (sportswriter)}}

He was posthumously awarded the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), announced in 1979 and bestowed in 1980.{{Cite news |date=November 28, 1979 |title=Two share Spinks Award |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20964426/two_share_spinks_award/ |access-date=June 14, 2018 |work=The Daily Reporter |location=Greenfield, Indiana |page=12 |via=newspapers.com |agency=UPI}}