Larry Brooks, The Post’s Hall of Fame hockey columnist, has added another honor to his collection.
Brooks has been voted 2024 co-sportswriter of the year for New York State by the National Sports Media Association.
Brooks was one of five New York Post writers to reach the seven-person finals for the award.
He was joined by football columnist Steve Serby, baseball columnist Joel Sherman, lead columnist Mike Vaccaro and Rangers beat writer Mollie Walker. Newsday’s Barbara Barker and co-winner Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic were the other finalists.
He is the fourth Post writer to earn the distinction, which is the result of a vote by industry peers and has been handed out every year since 1959. Columnist Phil Mushnick is a six-time winner, Vaccaro has won four times and Jets beat writer Brian Costello was named in 2015.
Brooks, known throughout the hockey world for his weekly Slap Shots column in the Sunday edition of The Post, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018, when he received the Elmer Ferguson Award.
He began his career at The Post in October of 1975 as a part-time clerk and was promoted to Islanders beat writer 10 months later. In 1982, he joined the New Jersey Devils as PR director and later VP of communications.
He returned to The Post as the Devils beat writer just in time to cover the epic seven-game 1994 Eastern Conference Finals series against the Rangers.
The next season he chronicled the Devils’ first Stanley Cup championship before serving as the Rangers beat writer through 2017, and as a hockey columnist since then.
