GREG BAUM

'Gregory Martin Baum' (born 14th December 1959) is an Australian sports journalist and football writer.
He was born in
Boronia, Melbourne, Victoria, to Joan and Martin Baum, as the first of
five children. He attended St Joseph's Primary School, Boronia, and later
St Joseph's High School, Ferntree Gully, graduating in 1975. He began work
on the local paper, the Boronia Advertiser, as a politics and sports
correspondent, in 1976, as well as attending a night-course in journalism
(which he never completed).
After a number of his articles on the local football competition were
republished in The Sun-Herald, a major newspaper in Melbourne, he was offered a job by that newspaper. He became a full time sportswriter for the paper,
and in this time travelled to Europe and India on a number of occasions.
He also married Jacinta Maria Tobin.
Greg and Jacinta's first son, Nicholas James Baum, was born on the
31st May 1989, and a week later he was offered a job by Fairfax
Publications at The Age, the Sun's main rival. In 1990, his long-time
love, Collingwood Football Club, won their first VFL premiership for
thirty-two years. The couple had two more children, Joshua Gregory and
Maximilian Thomas, in the intervening years, before ultimately divorcing
in 1998.
Greg has continued to write for The Age, where he is now Chief
Football Reporter, as well as writing for the Guardian of London and
editing the Australian edition of Wisden. He has received a number of
awards for his work, from the MCG Trust, the Victorian Boxing Association
and the Australian Press Association. In 2006, he attended the FIFA World
Cup, which he names as one of the highlights of his career.

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★ Greg's most recent work