Richard Dunn

An Orange County native, Richard Dunn has been a professional sportswriter since 1981 and served as Sports Editor of his junior high and high school newspapers prior to landing his first stringer job at the Daily Pilot in Costa Mesa, Calif. Within three years, Dunn was covering Major League Baseball, the NFL and college football’s, spending a quarter-century in the daily newspaper business, including as Sports Editor of the Daily Pilot.

A former professional baseball player, Dunn has been penning a
weekly sports column for the Orange County Register/Coastal
Current since 2012 and serves as a writing consultant for nonprofit organizations.

Dunn is a winner of the Orange County Reporter of the Year/Sweepstakes Award at the Orange County Fair Media Awards and co-hosted a cable television sports show “From Press Row” in the 1990s.

A member of the Baseball Writers Association of America in the 1990s, Dunn covered the Angels on a regular beat for seven years, as well as postseason games in 1985 and 1988, and the 1989 All-Star Game at Anaheim Stadium. He wrote about Kirk Gibson’s game-winning home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, considered the No. 1 sports moment in Southern California history, according to the Los Angeles Times.

As a baseball player, Dunn was a captain in high school and college. After a four-year college career, Dunn played three years in the minor leagues – in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Pioneer League and his final year in the Minnesota Twins organization in 1987 (yes, the same year the Twins won their first World Series).

Dunn loves all sports, especially football, baseball, and basketball. But most of all loves his family – wife Andrea, son Nolan and deceased son Julian.