2009 Presenters

Bill Littlefield

Bill Littlefield, nationally known author and veteran sports commentator, hosts WBUR and National Public Radio's Only A Game, a weekly one-hour sports magazine. Littlefield has provided audiences with a weekly tour through the world of sports since 1993 from WBUR in Boston. The show has covered a wide range of sports topics, from the basics of who wins and loses to issues such as racism and career opportunities for the disabled.

Littlefield has been a commentator for National Public Radio since 1984. He is the writer-in-residence at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts, where he has been a humanities professor since 1976. He also taught sports writing and other writing courses at the Harvard University Summer School and the John F. Kennedy School Summer Program for Masters Candidates from 1981 to 1987.

Bill Littlefield's publications include: Keepers: Radio Stories from Only A Game and Elsewhere; Baseball Days, a collection of essays with photographs by Henry Horenstein; Champions: The Stories of Ten Remarkable Athletes; a piece entitled "A Storied Career" in Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures; and the novel Prospect, for which he also wrote a screenplay. He is the editor of Houghton Mifflin's The Best American Sports Writing, 1998.

In addition to writing books and essays, Littlefield has regularly contributed commentaries to Monitor Television's Opinion Page, as well as in The Atlanta Constitution, The Los Angeles Times, and Newsday.

Bill Littlefield has won six Associated Press Awards, and has been celebrated as one of Boston's "Literary Lights" by the associates of the Boston Public Library. He is a graduate of Yale University (cum laude) and the Harvard University School of Education. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts, with his wife Mary Atlee and their daughters Amy and Alison.