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José de Jesus Ortiz - Editor-in-Chief

José de Jesus Ortiz

Founder & Editor in Chief

Award-winning writer José de Jesus Ortiz, the first Latino to serve as president of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, has covered Major League Baseball since 1997 in Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, New York and Houston. He also served as a lead sports columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after 15 years as an Astros beat writer, national baseball writer and international soccer writer at the Houston Chronicle. He has written two books, including Armed and Dangerous on the 2004-2005 Houston Astros.

Astros rook Jeremy Peña out of Correa’s shadow

Hector Herrera, Jose Urquidy raise Mexican flag

Roberto Clemente, the first of 7 Latinos in 3,000-hit club

Guardians’ Andres Gimenez among AL best

Mexican national team remains America’s Team

NASCAR’s Daniel Suarez brings Mariachi to Texas

MLB misses Hispanic Heritage Month substance

Albert Pujols gives grieving fan historic baseball

Jose Altuve nominated for Roberto Clemente Award

Luis Ortiz is full of King Kong smack talk