Molina Coverage Illustrates Line Between News and Opinion
The unwritten rules are designed to enforce respect on the ballfield, but they carry over into the media, as well. Criticism of players’ ability and effort is expected; they open themselves up to it...
View ArticleThe Code isn’t for Everyone – Just Those who Care
The inimitable Charles P. Pierce. Charles P. Pierce is a writer for the Boston Globe. He’s one of the more gifted sportswriters in the field. (One of my favorite pieces he’s written ran a few years...
View ArticleHayhurst Takes Notes in the Clubhouse, Gets Offended When People Take...
So Dirk Hayhurst got hazed. In an interview with the Toronto Star, the former big league pitcher—and author of The Bullpen Gospels and Out of My League, which comes out later this month—expresses...
View ArticleOn Outside the Lines
So I was on ESPN’s Outside the Lines yesterday, talking catcher collisions. They asked, I said yes. Then I found out I’d be on alongside Terry Kennedy, Bob Boone and Darin Erstad, each of whom … how...
View ArticleOutside the Lines
I said that I’d post the Outside the Lines video when I got my hands on it. Well, I got my hands on it.
View Article‘Baseball Forever!’ Debuts on the Audio Charts
A project I worked on this winter just came out this week. It’s an audio book called “Baseball Forever,” for which I mined the game tape, dating back to the 1930s, assembled by the country’s...
View ArticleJim Fregosi on the Concepts of Hierarchy, Respect and Appropriate Response
In the wake of Jim Fregosi’s passing last week, Rick Bozich, longtime writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal, shared a story of some behind-the-scenes insight he gained into baseball’s retaliatory...
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