Mark Mulvoy '64 Enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame

去年11月, Mark Mulvoy ’64 capped a storied career in sports journalism with his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, where he was presented with the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award. He was chosen for both honors by the Professional Hockey Writers Association, which selects media honorees for the hall of fame. Mulvoy, the renowned managing editor of 《电子游戏正规平台》 from 1984 to 1996 (except for a brief stretch in the early ’90s when he served as publisher), helped the magazine become perhaps the most prestigious publication in sports journalism, breaking major stories and pursuing serious investigations. He was previously a pioneering hockey reporter for the magazine, covering the game with a passion that helped to raise the profile of the sport. The award recognizes hockey writers who have brought honor to the game and to the sport itself.

马克向大众宣传冰球运动,” said Professional Hockey Writers Association President Frank Seravalli. “Even when interest in the sport was waning, he kept hockey at the forefront. 他突出了这一点. 他毫不留情.”

“I can’t tell you how proud I am of my career in journalism,” Mulvoy said. “这感觉就像一个高潮.”

Mulvoy’s love of hockey started as a boy. 在50年代, he and his brother would play stick hockey with a plastic cup on the street outside their Dorchester apartment. As a teenager, he’d sneak into the Boston Garden to catch Bruins games from the nosebleed seats. His journalism career started soon after enrolling at 电子游戏软件, when he covered BC sports part-time for the 波士顿环球报. He joined the paper full-time after graduating in 1963. Two years later, he headed to New York for a job at SI. He’d been hired to write about baseball, but his editors quickly assigned him to shadow the legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus for a column Mulvoy would ghostwrite. “我就在那儿, a kid who grew up caddying at the Wollaston Golf Club,马尔沃伊惊奇地回忆道, ”,突然, I’m in Florida playing golf with Jack Nicklaus.”

Mulvoy covered every sport he could for the magazine, 但曲棍球是他最大的爱好, and the young writer found himself in the right place at the right time to tell the stories of a sport in ascent. He covered the National Hockey League as it expanded in 1967 from six to twelve teams, 三年后, he convinced the government of the Soviet Union to allow him into the country to become the first American writer ever to cover Soviet hockey. What he found was a program on the rise. “Nobody realized the Russians were as good as they were,” he said. “They were better than we could have imagined.” Across three trips to the country between 1972 and 1975, he sent home dispatches about the Soviets’ revolutionary style of play, full of fast and intricate passing maneuvers, which contrasted with the more plodding North American style.

1981年，穆尔沃伊被提名为三人之一 《电子游戏正规平台》 助理总编辑. 那时他才43岁, 三年后, he was named as the magazine’s youngest-ever managing editor, leading a publication with more than two hundred editorial staffers and three and a half million subscribers. “I wanted us to be the conscience of sports,” Mulvoy said of his ambitions upon taking editorial control of the magazine. He assigned major investigative stories, including one that revealed rampant cocaine abuse in the NFL and another that broke the Pete Rose gambling scandal, which led to a lifetime baseball ban for one of the game’s all-time greatest players.

在Mulvoy的编辑下， SI won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the most prestigious prize in the industry, 连续两年了. Mulvoy also made the magazine a success at the newsstand, 部分原因是泳衣的问题, in which models were photographed in bikinis. Mulvoy expanded the concept from a small yearly feature into an annual special issue that became a cultural phenomenon and sold five million copies a year.    

通过他所有其他的胜利, 然而, Mulvoy never stopped championing the sport he loved, running abundant hockey coverage up to his retirement in 1996. 当然，其中有些是严厉的爱. “Mark was an angel on the shoulder of the National Hockey League—but he was also a thorn in its side,迈克尔·法伯说, an SI 马尔沃伊雇佣的曲棍球作家. “他讲述了一些非常非常艰难的故事. He was doing what journalists were supposed to.”