Chicago Tribune<\/a> because of Murdoch\u2019s ownership, who helped Ginnetti make the switch to sports permanent in 1986. \u201cI was at a Wrigley Field event with the then-managing editor Ken Towers and Mike, and we were talking,\u201d she said. \u201cMike sort of out of the blue turned to Ken and said: `When are you going to put her in sports?\u2019 It happened the next week! That was the power of Royko, bless him.\u201d<\/p>\nNow that she\u2019s no longer spending days and nights in press boxes and locker rooms, Ginnetti said, she\u2019s looking forward to devoting more time to family and home interests, including volunteer work involving her beloved dogs in animal-assisted therapy.<\/p>\n
As for her tenure at the Sun-Times, Ginnetti said: \u201cI feel fortunate to have been among the \u2018survivors\u2019 through the many troubled times, and always proud of the good work we've done despite so many, shall I say odd<\/em> administrations. And I'm glad I'll still be able to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran Chicago sportswriter Toni Ginnetti, who was among the first women to cover a wide range of professional and college sports beats \u2014 including both the White Sox and the Cubs \u2014 retired Friday after 33 years at the Sun-Times. Although she\u2019ll continue to write occasionally for the paper on a freelance basis, her retirement... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}