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re: What did Kim do?
Posted on 3/24/24 at 1:31 pm to InkStainedWretch
Posted on 3/24/24 at 1:31 pm to InkStainedWretch
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… the thing with sports journalists not being satisfied just to cover games
My uncle was a sports writer in the late 40s and 50s. He was friends with Ty Cobb , who called him when he found out my uncle was in a terminal situation. He would tell me stories about the sports figures he would party with. I asked him if he had ever considered writing a book about all these adventures".
He said no, his job was to write about sports and he would never cross that line .
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Posted on 3/24/24 at 1:54 pm to OlGrandad
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My uncle was a sports writer in the late 40s and 50s. He was friends with Ty Cobb , who called him when he found out my uncle was in a terminal situation. He would tell me stories about the sports figures he would party with. I asked him if he had ever considered writing a book about all these adventures".
He said no, his job was to write about sports and he would never cross that line .
Good for your uncle. Not many old-school journalists left.
These days, they value their worth by hits. Any made up crap can work, as long as it gets hits.
Posted on 3/24/24 at 2:21 pm to OlGrandad
There’s a difference IMO between doing something like Jim Bouton did in Ball Four, documenting the silly things that players do over the course of a season to keep from going crazy, and deliberately stirring up caca gratuitously for shock value.
This post was edited on 3/24/24 at 2:22 pm
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