Detroit Tigers beat writer, The Athletic (2019 – present)
Michigan football beat writer, The Athletic (fall 2018)
Oklahoma Sooners beat writer, Tulsa World (2016-2018)
Internships: MLB.com (2016 Chicago Cubs, 2015 Texas Rangers); Star Tribune; The Oklahoman; Amarillo Globe-News.
Notable honors
- 2016 APSE Beat Writer of the Year (75,000 & under circulation)
- 2017 APSE Top 10 Beat Writer
- APSE Explanatory Writing Top 10 3x
- 2015 Best College Features Writer, Society for Features Journalism
- First place, sports writing, Hearst Journalism Awards (2016)
- Runner-up, Hearst National Writing Championship, 2015 & 2016
About me
I was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas, home of Cadillac Ranch, dust storms and the 72-ounce steak. I graduated from Oklahoma State University, home of neon palm trees, bacon-cheese fries and red-dirt music. I’m writing about baseball and chasing other stories up in Detroit now, and if we’re not talking about BABIP or wRC+, the best stories combine people and their dreams, places and their histories, communities and the hopes and fears that shape us all.
Contact me: 806-367-1874, @CodyStavenhagen, cstavenhagen@gmail.com
Longform
Golden boy? Pariah? This is what makes A.J. Hinch tick, The Athletic

Bob Stoops Rides Away, Tulsa World

Chasing Billy Sims, Tulsa World

Beyond Perfect: Armando Galarraga, 10 years after the call, The Athletic

The last night at Tiger Stadium, The Athletic

Al Kaline, an unlikely friendship and a lasting message, The Athletic

Big George: From the projects to the Pistons, Shea Patterson’s grandfather changed the course of his family’s story, The Athletic

Saving Hamtramck Stadium: A Negro League ballpark, a changing community and a fight to reclaim history, The Athletic

For baseball legends and families, memorabilia can be a blessing and a burden, The Athletic

The dreams of Al Avila, The Athletic

The joyous, hopeful, breakable, complicated return of Miguel Cabrera, The Athletic

The Curious Case of Gordon Beckham, The Athletic

Mike Hessman can’t quit the minors, The Athletic

Shea Patterson, Jim Harbaugh and Ann Arbor’s Rising Pulse, The Athletic

Meet Greg Kinney, the man in charge of Michigan’s football history, The Athletic

From East Lansing to Ann Arbor, a search for the heart of a rivalry, The Athletic

The School that Shaped Dax Hill, The Athletic

The Burdens of Trae Young, Tulsa World

Twice arrested on domestic violence complaints, OU’s Dede Westbrook took a complicated route to stardom, Tulsa World

Out of the Shadows, Tulsa World

In small-town Oklahoma, a bastion for global baseball dreams, Tulsa World

And then there was a football game, The O’Colly

Charles Fowler Holds On, The O’Colly
