Pedro Gomez, a Pillar of Baseball Coverage for ESPN, Dies at 58
Pedro Gomez, a Pillar of Baseball Coverage for ESPN, Dies at 58 A son of Cuban refugees, he covered 25 World Series and 22 All-Star Games. Pedro Gomez, shown in 2015 before a spring training game in Mesa, Arizona. He spent 18 years as a baseball beat writer and columnist before joining ESPN. Credit...Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics, via Getty Images Feb. 8, 2021 Pedro Gomez, a mainstay of ESPN’s coverage of Major League Baseball for much of the past two decades who went from the newspaper sports section to millions of television screens, died at his home in Phoenix on Sunday, ESPN and hi...