Biography: Joel Sherman is a sportswriter for the New York Post. He is also a baseball insider with MLB Network. He was born and raised in Canarsie in Brooklyn, New York.[1] He graduated from NYU in 1985.[2] Sherman worked for both the in-house Washington Square News as well as the UPI while at NYU.[3] Sherman joined the New York Post in 1989 and served as a beat writer writing about the New York Yankees from 1989 to 1995.[4] In 2013 Sherman joined MLB Network as an insider. Sherman has been a voter for the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1998.