Gordon Edes

Gordon Edes (born September 24, 1954 in Fitchburg) is an American sportswriter and historian. Edes was appointed as team historian and strategic communications advisor for the Boston Red Sox by the club's owners, the Fenway Sports Group, in late 2015. He had covered the team for eighteen years as a sportswriter (1997–2015), first for the Boston Globe and then for ESPN Boston. Edes is a registered voter for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. ==Career== Born to Lionel R. Edes and Dely Willerscheidt, Edes attended Lunenburg High School in Lunenberg, Massachusetts, graduating in 1972. He then attended North Park University in Chicago, Illinois, from 1972 to 1976, but did not graduate until taking two final classes in 2019. He received a Bachelors of Arts in history. Edes began working for the Chicago Tribune (1972–1980), the Los Angeles Times (1980–1989), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1989), The National (1990–1991), and the Sun-Sentinel (1991–1996). He worked for The Boston Globe for ten years, and then briefly for Yahoo Sports, before joining ESPN Boston in 2010. Edes left ESPN in 2015 when he was appointed team historian and strategic communications advisor for the Red Sox, succeeding Dick Bresciani. While with the Boston Globe, Edes was also a frequent guest on WBZ-TV's Sports Final program then hosted by Bob Lobel and was a regular contributor to Soxcast, a podcast about the Red Sox.