Dirk Lammers is an award-winning journalist who has spent more than two decades writing for the Associated Press in South Dakota and the Tampa Tribune, covering numerous beats including politics, business, energy and agriculture. His 2005 investigative report on the Small Business Association’s 9/11 loan programs won the 2006 UCLA Anderson School of Management Gerald Loeb Award, business and financial journalism’s highest honor. Other honors include the Associated Press Media Editors Enterprise Award and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ Best in Business Award.
Lammers is the author of Baseball’s No-hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats, which was named a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver Award Winner in the sports category. He has appeared on multiple MLB Network television and Sirius XM radio shows and has been quoted in numerous national publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and ESPN.
Lammers holds a Bachelor’s in Communication from the University of South Florida and is a member of Sales and Marketing Executives (SME) Sioux Falls and the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce.