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Baseball and the media : how fans lose in today's coverage of the game / George Castle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castle, George, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Social aspects--United States.
- Baseball.
- Mass media and sports--United States.
- Mass media and sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Chronicles the decline of baseball reporting and shows in practical terms how ill-served sports followers are by those they trust for the straight story. Charting the path of a veteran sports reporter's career, this book traces the changes in baseball coverage.
- Contents:
- A long, strange journey to the press box and clubhouse
- Old-time players and scribes
- The baseball beat writer
- Celebrity players or upstanding role models?
- Not baseball's golden children
- Latroy and Carl as Jekyll and Hyde
- A lot less chewin' the fat with managers
- All the news that's not fit to print
- The red and blue states of baseball journalism
- The politics of baseball media
- Chicago a toddlin', but soft, baseball media town
- No-shows in the press box and clubhouse
- Sports-talk radio
- No more Harry Carays
- Old versus new media
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-70531-0
- 9786610705313
- 0-8032-0738-7
- OCLC:
- 437204600
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