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<B>Director of Minor League Reports</B>
Joe Strauss, who covered the Braves, Orioles and Cardinals over three decades as a reporter and columnist for several news outlets, passed away today at age 54 due to complications from a battle with leukemia.
A native of Richmond, Va., Strauss began his newspaper career at the Gwinnett Daily News, serving as a sports writer covering the Braves, Falcons and Univeristy of Georgia. He worked at the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer before joining the AJC in 1988 as the national baseball writer.
In Atlanta he helped cover the Braves' rise from worst to first to World Series champions. Strauss left the AJC nearly a decade later, replacing Buster Olney for the Baltimore Sun, where he covered the Orioles and the end of Cal Ripken Jr.'s streak of consecutive games played. In 2001, he joined the staff at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and rose to columnist.
Strauss's death comes less than 13 months after Bryan Burwell, another sports columnist for the Post-Dispatch who was on an ESPN show, died in December 2014.
A native of Richmond, Va., Strauss began his newspaper career at the Gwinnett Daily News, serving as a sports writer covering the Braves, Falcons and Univeristy of Georgia. He worked at the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer before joining the AJC in 1988 as the national baseball writer.
In Atlanta he helped cover the Braves' rise from worst to first to World Series champions. Strauss left the AJC nearly a decade later, replacing Buster Olney for the Baltimore Sun, where he covered the Orioles and the end of Cal Ripken Jr.'s streak of consecutive games played. In 2001, he joined the staff at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and rose to columnist.
Strauss's death comes less than 13 months after Bryan Burwell, another sports columnist for the Post-Dispatch who was on an ESPN show, died in December 2014.