Tom Tomashek, 66, was in sports journalism for 35 years including eight with the Chicago Tribune and 25 years with The News Journal of Delaware where he covered all University of Delaware athletic programs, as well as local, regional, and national golf competition. Since his retirement in 2002, the six-time Delaware sportswriter of the year has freelanced for various newspapers and magazines and co-authored Town Ball, a history of Minnesota amateur baseball from 1945 through 1960. Tomashek, a native Minnesotan who was graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1959 and from South Dakota State University in 1964, resides with his wife, Laura, in Newark, Delaware.