Harold William Kaese (March 8, 1909 – May 10, 1975) was an American sports writer, best known for covering Major League Baseball in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kaese was born in 1909 in Philadelphia,[1] grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts, and graduated from Lynn English High School where he excelled at basketball and baseball.

[citation needed] During the 1940s to 1960s, he won several squash championships at the state and national levels.

[3] His writing was also published in various periodicals, including The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated.

[5] Kaese was honored (along with Red Smith) with the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) in December 1976.