Moco's Most Famous

On December 7, 2021, Kurkjian received a call to inform him that he  had been named the recipient of the prestigious Baseball Writers’  Association of America (BBWAA) Career Excellence Award. He was  dumbstruck. In the seven plus months since the award was announced, Kurkjian has  had time to reflect back on a career that took him from Walter Johnson  High School in Bethesda to the University of Maryland to the Dallas  Morning News, the Baltimore Sun, Sports Illustrated and ESPN for the  last 24 years where he has become one of the best and most trusted  baseball analysts on television.. On the eve of receiving the award. Kurkjian talked to Joe Yasharoff  about his career, what the award means to him and growing up in  Montgomery County in the latest episode of MoCo’s Most Famous.