Joe Kelly, a Baltimore native with a passion for Baltimore sports, is an award-winning journalist and writer with nearly 20 years of experience. He started his journalism career in Ocean City, Md., as a reporter and sports editor at The Maryland Coast Dispatch. Since then, he has earned his journalistic stripes as a reporter and editor for various trade and association publications. Joe is also a freelance writer who has been published in The Baltimore Sun, Maryland Family Magazine, The Baltimore Press, Peninsula Magazine, and various other publications and websites. In addition, he is also the author of That’s My Point: Reflections from Baltimore’s Locust Point Neighborhood (PublishAmerica, 2005). He was an all-conference kicker on the 1988-89 B Conference Championship Cardinal Gibbons High School football team. He also lettered in soccer, wrestling and lacrosse. He’s a graduate of the University of Dayton, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and played lacrosse.