Keepers of the game
Subtitle: when the baseball beat was the best job on the paper
By: Dennis D'Agostino ; foreword by Dave Anderson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781597976916
Subjects: Sections, columns; Baseball; Sports journalism; Sportswriters; Newspapers; Biography
Description: There was a time when the most prestigious job on a major newspaper belonged to the baseball beat writer, who enjoyed unparalleled longevity and influence within his profession. Through a variety of events and circumstances-television, expansion, all-sports radio, lifestyle changes, and the Internet revolution-those days are long gone. The baseball beat writers endure, but jobs change, and they now face new challenges. Keepers of the Game celebrates the last generation of baseball writers whose careers were rooted in Teletype machines, train travel, and ten-team leagues, and who wielded an inf.