Baseball and the Media
Subtitle: How Fans Lose in Today's Coverage of the Game
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: January 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780803264694
Subjects: Baseball; Media Studies; Baseball - History; Sports & Recreation; United States; Sports; Social aspects; Baseball - General; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Essays & Writings; Baseball - Essays & Writings; Mass Media - General; Mass media and sports
Description: "Charting the path of a veteran sports reporter's career, Baseball and the Media traces the changes in baseball coverage from the days of the old-time players and scribes to the no-holds-barred (and no facts checked) sports-talk radio of our time. Along the way, Castle introduces readers to the politics of baseball media (does sports journalism actually have its red and blue states?), documents the transformation of athletes from role models to sports-media celebrities, including emblematic characters such as LaTroy Hawkins and Carl Everett, and illuminates the profound changes in the way sports in general - and baseball in particular - are conveyed to avid consumers, who are the losers in the end."--BOOK JACKET.