Cafardo, Nick

Nick Cafardo was a sportswriter and sports author. A longtime columnist and beat reporter for The Boston Globe, he primarily covered the Boston Red Sox. Cafardo was the author of several books on sports. He wrote "The Impossible Team: The Worst to First Patriots’ Super Bowl Season" (2002), "Boston Red Sox: Yesterday and Today" (2007), and "100 Things Red Sox Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die" (2008). With Tom Glavine, he wrote "None But the Braves: A Pitcher, a Team, a Champion" (1996) and "Inside Pitch: Playing and Broadcasting the Game I Love" (2016), and with Jerry Remy, he wrote "If These Walls Could Talk" (2019). In 2001, Cafardo joined New England Sports Network (NESN) as an analyst for the Red Sox and contributed to NESN reports covering the team. Cafardo was co-recipient of the Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year award in 2014, shared with colleague Kevin Dupont of the Globe. In January 2017, Cafardo received the Dave O'Hara Award from the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), recognizing his long and meritorious service to BBWAA Boston.