Bill Christine (born Willard M. Christine, Jr., August 5, 1938) is an American former sportswriter, author, and publicist, dealing primarily with baseball and horse racing, who served briefly as sports editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and, for roughly the final half of his career, as a nationally syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
Christine was born in Illinois on August 5, 1938, to Willard M. Christine and Bernice J.
Walsh.
[23][24][2][25] He graduated from Assumption High School in 1956,[6] and later from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
[26] While attending SIUC, he also reported on sports for the Southern Illinoisan.