Life From The Press Box: Recollections of a sportswriter... (Black and White)
About the author Jim Street was born in Klamath Falls, Ore., on March 25, 1945 and lived most of his early life in Dorris, Calif., a farming and lumber mill community of about 1,000 residents and located about three miles from the Oregon border. He attended Dorris Grammar School and Butte Valley High School in Dorris before spending 2 ½ years at College of the Siskiyou in Weed, Calif., a community college. From there, he went to San Jose State University, earning a Journalism degree in January, 1968. Two weeks later, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, serving 11 months in Vietnam, one month in Tokyo, Japan and six months at the Presidio of San Francisco. He worked at the Oakland Tribune on a part-time basis while stationed at the Presidio and joined the San Jose Mercury-News in March, 1970. Jim spent 15-plus years at the M-N, covering preps, the Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants, San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders. He also covered the Bing Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament, several LPGA events and tennis tournaments in the Bay Area. He took a job with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1986, covering the Seattle Mariners and University of Washington women’s basketball. In 1998, he left the P-I to join USA Baseball in Tucson, Ariz., and returned to Seattle in 2001 to cover the Mariners for a start-up company called MLB.com. He retired from MLB.com on October 2010 and one year later joined forces with Bob Sherwin and Kirby Arnold to create GolfersWest.com, a web site specializing in golf from as far east as Colorado, as far south as New Mexico, as far north as British Columbia and as far west as the Hawaiian Islands. Jim is married to Becky Street. He has two children, Scott and Katy, from a previous marriage, a granddaughter Avery, grandson Andrew and step-son Brad. He lives in Seattle, Wash., with Becky, father-in-law Gene Richardson, Brad and Bailey, a French Bulldog.