GLENDALE, Ariz. — Joe Goddard, a longtime baseball writer affectionately known as ‘‘Young Joe’’ around press boxes while he covered the Cubs and White Sox for the Chicago Sun-Times, died peacefully surrounded by his family Friday. He was 85.
Goddard, who twice was nominated for induction into the writers’ wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, was a Cubs and Sox beat writer for the Sun-Times for 27 years. He worked at the newspaper from 1964 to 2006.
