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Illustrious career ends for McGinn

McGinn

ESCANABA – Legendary Green Bay Packers sportswriter and Escanaba native Bob McGinn announced his retirement last week from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

McGinn, 65, covered the Packers for The Milwaukee Journal and Journal Sentinel since 1991. He also spent 16 years at the Green Bay Press Gazette, including seven years on the Packers’ beat. Overall, McGinn hasn’t missed a Packers game since first writing about the team in 1984.

A 1970 graduate of Escanaba Holy Name and 1974 graduate of the University of Michigan, McGinn was a six-time recipient of the Sportswriter of the Year Award from the National Sports Media Association. He was inducted into the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.

In 2009, McGinn wrote the insightful book, “The Ultimate Super Bowl Book,” and produced a second edition in 2012.

In 2011, McGinn was selected by the Pro Football Writers of America as recipient of the prestigious Dick McCann Award for long and distinguished reporting, an honor that landed him in the writers’ wing of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

McGinn cut his teeth in newspapers working at The Daily Press in the summer of 1973 and at the Delta Reporter in Gladstone after his graduation from Michigan.

According to a story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, McGinn and his wife, Pat, plan to leave Wisconsin and move to the Ann Arbor area.

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