Tim Kurkjian Bio, Age, Height, Wife, Salary, Net Worth, ESPN, Books

Tim Kurkjian Biography

The Bethesda, Maryland native Timothy Bell Kurkjian, is a well known Major League Baseball analyst on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter. Kurkjian is also a contributor to ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com.

Kurkjian guests on Golic and Wingo on Thursdays at 7:44 a.m. to discuss about the latest happenings in Major League Baseball. Frequently, he also contributes to Buster Olney’s podcast. Kurkjian also makes regular appearances on The Dan LeBatard Show and The Tony Kornheiser Show.

Tim Kurkjian Family and Early Life

Born in Bethesda, Maryland, Kurkjian is the son of Badrig “Jeff” Kurkjian, a mathematician and Joyce “Joy” Kurkjian. His parents settled in Watertown, Massachusetts after the Armenian Genocide, while Joyce was born in England.

Badrig was a statistician who earned degrees from George Washington, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and American Universities. Tim’s father taught at the University of Alabama and he was the chief mathematician for the United States Army Materiel Command and also a fellow with the American Statistical Association.

Badrig was also an avid baseball fan who instilled in his son his love of both the sport and of statistics from a young age. Kurkjian revealed that his family constantly talked and thought about baseball. Both of his older brothers played college baseball for the Catholic University Cardinals and were inducted into that school’s athletics hall of fame. In his youth, apart from playing baseball, the young Kurkjian used to collect baseball cards, played tabletop baseball games and read anything baseball-related that he could.

Kurkjian went to Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, where he played on the school’s basketball and baseball teams. At the suggestion of his basketball coach, he started writing for the student newspaper, The Pitch and the school’s yearbook, “The Wind-up.”

Eventually, Kurkjian became the sports editor of The Pitch and realized that journalism would be the surest means of fulfilling his dream of making a living in professional sports. He graduated in 1974 from the school.

Tim Kurkjian Age

Timothy Bell Kurkjian was born on December 10, 1956 in Bethesda, Maryland, United States.

Tim Kurkjian Salary and Net Worth

Being a journalist, baseball analyst and author, Kurkjian has a net worth of $2 million dollars, although the details about his salary still remains a mystery since he has not shared any information about the same.

Tim Kurkjian Body Measurements

  • Height: 1.65.10 m.
  • Weight: Not Available.
  • Shoe Size: Not Available.
  • Body Shape: Not Available.
  • Hair Colour: Not Available.

Tim Kurkjian Wife

Kurkjian married Kathleen Patrick, a lawyer on November 26, 1983. The duo is blessed with a daughter Kelly, an artist, and one son, Jeff, who hosts Jeff & Aimee in the Morning on KCYE radio in Las Vegas. Both Kelly and Jeff are graduates from Syracuse University.

Tim Kurkjian Education and Career

Kurkjian enrolled at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 1974. While at Maryland, he covered high school sports for his hometown newspaper, the Montgomery Journal. In 1978, Immediately after graduating from Maryland with a B.A. in journalism, Kurkjian took an entry-level position with the Washington Star. By 1981, Kurkjian became a staff writer. When the Star folded that year, Kurkjian took a position with the Baltimore News-American.

That paper also went out of business within two months of his arrival. He started covering baseball as the Texas Rangers beat writer for The Dallas Morning News where he worked from 1981 to 1985. Then in 1986, Tim  covered the Baltimore Orioles for The Baltimore Sun beginning.

Kurkjian was a senior writer for Sports Illustrated from 1989 to 1997. Sports Illustrated reassigned him in 1997, to covering basketball. Tim served in this capacity for 6 months before joining ESPN as a baseball writer and television journalist in 1998 at 40 years old.

Kurkjian authored his first book, America’s Game, in 2000 and released his second book in May 2007 titled Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod’s Heart to Zim’s Head—My 25 Years in Baseball. He published his book I’m Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love in 2016.

In 1999 and 2007, Kurkjian was the Commencement speaker at his alma mater, Walter Johnson High School, the 2008 speaker at Seneca Valley High School and also delivered the winter commencement speech on December 19, 2007 at the University of Maryland.

In 2012, while Kurkjian and John Kruk, his fellow ESPN analyst were on their annual bus tour around the spring training facilities. A new craze was created known as Kurkjianing where players would impersonate Tim Kurkjian during interviews. Some of the players that did this were Elliot Johnson of the Rays and Tim Dillard of the Brewers, J. P. Arencibia of the Rangers.

Tim corresponds regularly on ESPN Radio and has frequently been featured on the former SVP & Russillo show hosted by Scott Van Pelt and Ryen Russillo. This is one element that has proved its popularity with listeners when Van Pelt reads out names of American sports stars using comedic Baltimore accent, often making Tim crease with laughter.

After Van Pelt departed from his radio slot to anchor the late night SportsCenter show, the mantle of making Tim laugh has been accupied by The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, which uses its meme of people in the sports world. They might be players, coaches or officials, who look like non-sporting people in mundane or ridiculous situations.

Frequently Asked Questions About Tim Kurkjian

Who is Tim Kurkjian?

The Bethesda, Maryland native Timothy Bell Kurkjian, is a well known Major League Baseball analyst on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter. Kurkjian is also a contributor to ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com.

How old is Tim Kurkjian?

Tim is 63 years old as of 2019, born on December 10, 1956.

How tall is Tim?

Tim stands at a height of 1.65.10 m.

Is Tim married?

Kurkjian married Kathleen Patrick, a lawyer on November 26, 1983. The duo is blessed with a daughter Kelly, an artist, and one son, Jeff, who hosts Jeff & Aimee in the Morning on KCYE radio in Las Vegas.

How much is Tim worth?

Being a journalist, baseball analyst and author,  Kurkjian has a net worth of $2 million dollars,

How much does Tim make?

Not Known.

Where does Tim live?

Not Known.

Is Tim dead or alive?

Tim is still alive and in good health.

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