Bruce Lowitt’s Biography
Bruce Lowitt was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He began his journalism career in 1965 with the Daily Item in Port Chester, New York. He joined The Associated Press in 1967 and moved to The AP’s New York Sports Department in 1970, eventually becoming Pro Football Editor and, later, a national sports features writer covering Super Bowls, World Series, Olympic Games, NBA and college basketball and football championships, the Indianapolis 500 and U.S. Open Tennis. In 1986 he joined the St. Petersburg Times in the same role and retired from full-time writing in 2004. Lowitt is the Senior Editor of Barstad Communications and author of "The Game Isn't Everything." He has appeared on national and local television and radio sport-talk programs, has written numerous magazine articles and for the Major League Baseball Players Association and AARP websites, and has co-authored several sports books for the youth market. His stories have appeared in "A Century of Champions," "The Sports Immortals" and in "The Fireside Book of Baseball" and "Best Sports Stories" anthologies.