Garber to be inducted into National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association HOF

Mary Garber, one of the first female sportswriters in the country, will be inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and Hall of Fame.

Garber, 91, will be inducted into the NSSA Hall of Fame along with Harry Kalas, the longtime voice of the  Philadelphia Phillies. The ceremony will be held in early May in Salisbury, N.C., where the NSSA Hall of Fame is located.

Garber, a former sportswriter at the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal, first retired from the Journal in 1986 but continued to work part time until 2002. She was the winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors Red Smith Award in 2005. She was also the first women to win that prestigious award.

In 2002, she was inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame.

The Association for Women in Sports Media renamed its Pioneer Award in Garber's honor in 2006.

"Mary's example to all women in sports media is immeasurable," AWSM president Jenni Carlson said. "There is no one more worthy of induction into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame."