Sheldon Ocker (born August 22, 1942) is an Americansportswriter.

Ocker attendedBuchtel High School inAkron, Ohio, graduating in 1960. He attendedOhio State University, and graduated with a degree inpolitical science in 1964.^[2]

He worked for one year at theSandusky Register, and was hired by theAkron Beacon Journal in 1967.^[3] For theBeacon Journal, he covered high school sports for three years,^[2] theCleveland Cavaliers for ten years, and covered theCleveland Indians from 1981 through 2013.^[4]

He was the President of theBaseball Writers' Association of America in 1985.

Ocker was named the 2018 winner of theJ. G. Taylor Spink Award.^[5][6][7]

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