Chester native Rob Knox not only experiences the action of Philly sports when it happens, he captures it as keepsakes, writes Dave Uram for KYW Newsradio.

His hobby has meant wearing many hats—as a sportswriter for the Daily Times, as stats manager at ESPN, as an athletic communications staffer at various universities, as senior director of Strategic Communications for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and as the second Black president of College Sports Information Directors of America.

“To know that that’s going to be what they will be reading and looking at 10, 15, 20 years from now, is really something special,” he said.

Kutztown University volleyball coach John Gump, saw Knox in action when he was the sports information director there.  Knox can make you feel like you were somewhere you weren’t, he said.

“He is like the quintessential Philadelphia fan. He rides that roller coaster, but he also enjoys every minute of the ride,” Gump said.

Knox started scrapbooking sports when the Chester High School boys basketball team took the state title and the Sixers, with Julius Erving, won the 1982-83 NBA Championship.

Over the past year, Knox’s work won him the College Sports Communicators Mary Jo Haverbeck Trailblazer Award and the NCAA Champions of Diversity Award.

Read more about Rob Knox at KYW Newsradio.