Sheldon Ocker (born August 22, 1942) is an American sportswriter.
Ocker attended Buchtel High School in Akron, Ohio, graduating in 1960. He attended Ohio State University, and graduated with a degree in political science in 1964.[2]
He worked for one year at the Sandusky Register, and was hired by the Akron Beacon Journal in 1967.[3] For the Beacon Journal, he covered high school sports for three years,[2] the Cleveland Cavaliers for ten years, and covered the Cleveland Indians from 1981 through 2013.[4]
He was the President of the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 1985.
Ocker was named the 2018 winner of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award.[5][6][7]
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