Baseball and the media how fans lose in today's coverage of the game

What sports fans read, watch, and listen to at home often isn't the real story coming out of the locker room or the front office. George Castle should know; he's covered baseball in Chicago for decades and witnessed the widening gulf between the media and the teams they're supposed to...

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Autor principal: Castle, George (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2006.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31816046*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.