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Legal scrum: Media win important battle vs. oppression
2007-09-11 00:28:00
I learned the power of the press at a pretty early age. As a teen working for the Fort Myers News-Press, I covered a lot of football and watched a lot of talented players, like the always explosive Deion Sanders. Rarely, did anybody cause any problems. Once, though, a woman at the gate at Cypress Lake High School refused to allow me into a game, perhaps believing I was some high school senior trying to sneak in for free. She said I would have to pay. I repeated that I was a reporter and showed her my notebooks and legal pads. She said I would have to pay like everybody else. I told her not to expect any coverage in the next morning's editions.Fortunately, a track coach at the gate who knew me, told her to let me in. I'd like to think that coach reamed her out, but this woman probably never gave it a second thought. The press, she believed, should not get any special privileges. But, you know, sports reporters are not there eating hot dogs, downing popcorn, and sipping sodas as we ...
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This NCAA rule makes no sense
2007-09-06 16:34:00
Ron Dayne ran for 7,125 yards in his days as a bruiser in Wisconsin's back field. But the NCAA counts only 6,397 of them. That's because the NCAA did not count yardage from bowl games in its total when Dayne played, meaning the Badgers runner loses out on the 738 yards in four games. Dayne rushed for more than 200 yards four times. (Still, Dayne's total is the most ever by a Division I-A back.)A few years ago, the NCAA changed its rules to include bowl yardage. But the yardage is not included retroactively. So Dayne's yards do not count for the overall record. This makes no sense. The NCAA does a terrific job organizing, marketing and assisting thousands of college athletes across the country. Few organizations do more for athletics in this country. But rules like this flabbergast fans and journalists alike. Andy Baggot, a sports reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal, says his temples are pinging over this rule. He revealed the ridiculous nature of this rule in a story publis...
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Ask follow-up questions
2007-09-04 19:35:00
Athletes do not practice speaking in cliches any more than sportswriters attempt to write them. But, you know, sometimes a good cliche is worth a thousand words. You can take that to the bank. But cliches can also be confusing -- even to a hard-nosed fan, someone who is a gamer, a serious student of the game and a go-to guy for sports trivia.Cliches are not any one's friend, despite what Crash Davis says in Bull Durham (perhaps, the funniest movie ever produced on sports.)Crash Davis: It's time to work on your interviews.Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: My interviews? What do I gotta do?Crash Davis: You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play it one day at a time."Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: Got to play... it's pretty boring.Crash Davis: 'Course it's boring, that's the point. Write it down.We should not interview athletes and coaches for quotes. Instead, we need to speak with t...
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Minor beats can yield major dividends
2007-08-30 18:26:00
Don?t tell me you can?t find stories on ?minor? college sports like cross country, swimming, and field hockey. Often, the best stories come from these beats. Most sports writers will clamor to cover football this fall, but that?s not where all the best stories reside.Be thankful if you cover a ?minor? beat because nobody else will have this information. Cover cross country or field hockey or rugby like any other beat by going to practices, talking with coaches and athletes, and reading stories on other conference teams. In the end, you?ll be an expert on this beat ? and, therefore, invaluable. Editors and readers alike will appreciate your efforts. Too often, these sports unfairly receive little coverage even in high school and college newspapers.Covering a "minor" beat will also help you land a job. Sports editors are sometimes more impressed when writers submit clips from ?minor? sports,? believing it takes more time and effort to find these stories (After all, sports information ...
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Don?t just wing it: Squeeze in some time to develop stories on bunts, picks
2007-08-27 16:12:00
USA Today recently posted a great article on the Wing -T offense in football, a formation that relies on misdirection and deception. This formation is especially helpful for smaller programs that do not have the size or strength on the front lines, although this formation is effective for programs of all sizes. More than 16 percent of all state champs in 2006 implemented the Wing-T, so named because the formation loosely resembles a T. To learn more about the strategies and intricacies of the Wing T, click here.Readers love stories that help explain strategies, formations, and techniques. For example, you could write a story on how teams effectively implement the suicide squeeze in baseball, the triangle offense in soccer, or the pick-and-roll in basketball. That means you need to talk with as many coaches as possible to fully understand the nuances of these plays ? and so you can get many perspectives. Not every coach runs the same play or offense the same way. In addition, make sur...
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MLB.com seeks interns for next summer
2007-08-21 20:47:00
Here's the press release we just received from MLB on internships. This is a great opportunity to get valuable experience reporting, writing, interviewing -- and working with professional sports journalists. Check it out.PRESS RELEASEWant an exciting summer of covering Major League or Minor League Baseball? MLB.com offers 33 reporting internships to aspiring sportswriters. These internships are designed to give associates the full range of experiences that comes with covering a professional team. Each associate will work closely with a site reporter to give visitors to a team?s Web site all the information they need to follow the team from Opening Day to season?s end. Each Major League city will have one associate, and MLB.com, which manages the Web site for MiLB, will offer three internships for the Minor Leagues.Starting Sept. 10, we will be looking for talented college juniors and seniors, as well as graduate students, for our 2008 Summer Internship Program. The application dead...
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Getting the most out of an interview
2007-08-15 19:31:00
Sometimes, I can't sleep so I sit, bleary-eyed, and retrace the day's events while my body struggles to stay awake. At times, I drive around town with the other night owls and insomniacs. A few years ago, this led me to a Wal-Mart at 1 in the morning where I bought party favors for my daughter's fourth birthday. As I checked out, I started to grow exceptionally weary (and grouchy) as the older woman at the register worked slowly, taking more time than necessary to handle and scan the pointed party hats, the sound blowers, and the napkins. I could barely stand. I was impatient and about to blow -- until she started telling me her story."Having a party," she said softly. "Those are always fun. You know, I haven't seen my grand-daughter for a few years. I really miss her."Nobody else was in line behind me, so she proceeded to tell a story about a young mother who believed her mother-in-law was getting too pushy and about a son who would not defend his mom. This woman said she was p...
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Develop a sports syllabus that meets your students' needs
2007-08-13 15:39:00
You would assume that most students who sign up for a sports reporting class would like sports. That's not always the case. Sometimes, students sign up for this class in order to fit in another writing course, because they always wanted to learn about sports or because they cannot get into another class. Students who think this will be a blow-off class quickly drop it, mostly because they find the class requires a considerable amount of writing. After all, that is how one learns about reporting and writing -- by doing it. (Something that is complemented by assessment and analysis). That is how I set up my syllabus. I do not give tests or quizzes. Each writing assignment is essentially a test on how much students have learned in class.I also do not assume that even my most senior and experienced students understand all about sports. As a sports editor, I used to read copy from some reporters who did not know enough about the sports they were paid to cover, so I know college students...
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Let me know your needs for sports reporting classes
2007-07-29 16:42:00
I'm back -- sort of. Not in any Arnie type of way. Rather, I'm just checking in to let you know I have not disappeared like the Brewers' lead in the NL Central. I am in the midst of developing a new sports reporting syllabus for my fall class, something I will post around Aug. 13. (And I am recovering from a summer filled with softball. There's a story for you -- parents who spend their summers sitting on bleachers and watching their kids play softball every weekend. Did I say 60-plus games? Whew. Actually, it's pretty addictive at times. I'll write more about that later.) In a few weeks, I will return to posting at least 2-3 times a week on a variety of sports reporting subjects. As always, I will field questions from students and professors. Feel free to send a note to jgisondi@gmail.com with any queries. Also, please, let me know if you are planning to use materials on this blog so I can better serve your needs. I would appreciate if teachers directed students to this site ...
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Don't let major events intimidate you
2007-07-10 14:45:00
You?re a college reporter who has covered a few events on your campus, working mainly with coaches who have become familiar with you. Usually, you wear jeans and a t-shirt, blending in with the other college students on campus.Suddenly, you receive an assignment: Cover a professional tennis event at a large stadium. You?re scared to death. How do you act? What do you wear? That was the case with one college sports reporter who sent me a note last week. ?I guess my biggest fear is when I go to pick up my media credentials,? he wrote. ?I know I have what it takes, but I'm afraid they'll figure out I'm not a pro yet.?This can be a scary moment. But it can be less intimidating if you go back to the basics, the solid reporting that enabled you to get this assignment. But, first, determine the logistics of covering the event. Determine where you need to park, where you need to pick up your credentials, and where the media enter the stadium. Check the web site and/or call the media dire...
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Sports departments are still pretty white
2007-06-27 03:04:00
There's a reason strong racial sterotypes remain in sports media -- especially at the most senior levels. There are few minorities in charge of daily newspapers.Studies by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports have indicated this. A study for the Associated Press Sports Editors proved this. The numbers in the 2006 Racial and Gender Report Card are jolting.For example, only five African-Americans run a sports department for a daily newspaper in the United States. That's 1.56 percentage. Only nine Latinos are sports editors, compared to 303 whites, according to the report, which covered more than 300 Associated Press newspapers.Read the rest of the report by going to my posting at the Journal of Sports Media.
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Look to the past to learn about the future
2007-06-25 18:17:00
Veteran sports journalist Buddy Martin is correct. Sports journalists do not know enough about their own history.We fault professional baseball players for not knowing about Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, and pro football players for knowing little about Johnny Unitas and Gale Sayers, yet we do not always know enough about our own profession. ?We?re just as guilty,? said Martin, an editor who has accomplished quite a bit himself. He has served as sports editor at several newspapers, including the New York Daily News, St. Peterburg Times and Denver Post. Plus, he has earned an Emmy Award and is co-director of The Sports Journalism Summit at the Poynter Institute.How many sports journalists know anything about pioneers like Grantland Rice, Graham McNamee, Red Barber, and Paul Gallico? How many have read writers who helped elevate the profession like Red Smith and Shirley Povich. Fewer still know about the contributions of early black sports journalists like Wendell Smith, who played a sign...
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Feel free to bury the score
2007-06-15 17:04:00
I continue to hear editors and instructors tell students to put the score in the first three paragraphs of a game story, but that?s antiquated thinking, in most cases ? especially in games where everybody knows the score. Most fans will know the results before they read your game story. Readers typically do not read stories to get the scores anymore; instead, they read to re-live the game (especially if their team won.)In print, most newspapers will include a scoreline above the story for home-town games. That?s what the Cleveland Plain Dealer did last night when the Spurs completed a sweep of the Cavaliers (see page above, right). And that?s what most newspapers do for big games, whether that is an NBA championship or a prep baseball district playoff.If the game is big, the results are frequently known before fans read the story. Fans can follow games online or can scan for scores on their phones. (We?ll see how technology, like the new iPhone continues to change the media landscap...
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NFL sayeth 'we do not need video coverage from any stinkin newspapers'
2007-06-13 15:49:00
So now the NFL is also trying to limit newspaper coverage of their teams, something that seems absurdly ridiculous. A newspaper offering (free!) coverage that will promote and market its team, the ultimate goal of every public relations and advertising manager. I guess the NFL believes it is above such petty coverage, that it can market itself just fine, thank you very much. Where have you gone, Pete Rozelle?The Houston Chronicle's NFL beat reporter ">takes a humorous swipe at the NFL's rule that online sites limit videos to 45 seconds and that they use only portions of taped interviews. The video, which far exceeds the limit by going about two minutes, 50 seconds, includes Texans owner Bob McNair and several players. (I'm sure they'll be fined for this inexcusable swipe at the almighty NFL.) I read that the video has already been pulled from YouTube. The NFL does not want competition for its own web site that now includes more and more streaming video.On the other hand, newspap...
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Call out youth coaches who play only to win
2007-06-12 22:31:00
Too many youth league coaches believe their job is to win, something that pushy parents remind them. (When they are not complaining about playing time for their kids.)Youth leagues are really for developing skills, whether that is hitting, fielding, running, sliding or pitching. Few kids will recall a team's record in four or five years, about the time some of the kids will begin feeling pain in a shoulder or arm or elbow thanks to an overzealous and egocentric coach. No players are more prone to injuries than pitchers. That's why sports writers should step in and start counting pitches. And that's why we should work on some more in-depth pieces that chronicle these issues, stories that can educate parents who otherwise would have no idea that throwing 100 pitches three to four times a week is not okay. Many parents trust these coaches to do the right thing. Sometimes, the coach might not know better. Remember, many youth league coaches are drafted into service because no one el...
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Blogging policy shows the NCAA is out of touch
2007-06-12 02:54:00
So the NCAA just ejected a sports writer from a regional baseball game for blogging. Just as I told me class today, sports is all about making money. Sadly, that also includes those who run collegiate athletics. NCAA officials are concerned about live broadcast rights, believing such blogging will affect its ratings, so they told a beat reporter for Louisville Courier-Journal to leave the stadium in the fifth inning of the Cardinals? 20-2 rout of Oklahoma in a baseball supersectional that sent Louisville to the College World Series. The newspaper claims it will fight this policy as a First Amendment issue. Really, this is really a common sense issue.The NCAA receives hundreds of thousands of column inches of free advertising each year from reporters at professional and college news publications, not to mention from bloggers. Certainly, news publications also benefit, selling newspapers to readers about these events. It?s a symbiotic relationship that has worked for a hundred years, ...
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Here's an opportunity to report for MLB next summer
2007-06-11 05:17:00
Interested in covering a professional baseball team next summer? Then, check out the following information just sent to me by the assistant managing editor for MLB.com. Sportswriters typically have a more challenging time than news reporters when it comes to landing a summer internship, mostly because it is usually a slower time for many sports staffs that focus on high school sports. But don?t disregard a news internship at a newspaper where you can sharpen your reporting and writing skills, something that will make you a much better sports reporter in the long run. As far as internships go, the one at MLB is a pretty good one, one that pays $340-$400 a week. This is the same salary most of our summer interns get as they work at newspapers across Illinois. Looks like the candidates will also receive valuable experience working with professional journalists while adding equally important clips. This internship also offers multimedia experience, something that will also prove invalua...
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Check out the syllabus for course in sports and the media
2007-06-11 04:59:00
Here's a link to a class syllabus for a course I start teaching tomorrow, entitled Sports and the Media . Sorry for the time off, but I had been working on several work and home projects. I have a lengthy list of issues and tips to address in the coming weeks. Hope your summer is going well.-30-
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Keep writing: Start a blog
2007-05-29 15:32:00
Most beginning sports writers look forward to the day when they can cover professional sports, whether that is major-league baseball, professional football or a PGA event. There's a certain appeal to covering pro sports. We grow up as sports fans, admiring athletes on our favorite teams, so we want to be a part of it all. Some of us even dreamed of playing professional sports. So this is our shot at joining the sports fraternity. In time, we learn we are part of another brotherhood (sports journalists) and we find that it is just as good. We work side by side with hard-working, dedicated, sharp editors and writers to win battles against deadlines, to cajole reticent sources, and to fully capture the essence of a game, person or event. Journalism is also a team sport. Eventually, we find we love it just as much. We no longer have an emptiness that drives us, or a need to hit the ball fields in the spring, our hands itching without a glove or bat in them. Instead, we are sated by kee...
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Young Pence for NL rookie of the year
2007-05-24 06:41:00
We here at On Sports are throwing our support for Hunter Pence as National League rookie of the year. Why the rush? Part of this is parental gloating. After all, we discovered the Astros? new phenom, as readers of this blog will recall (?Nothing?s more joyful than spring training.?) Back in March, we watched Pence drill a double in extra innings that set up a game-winning single that helped the Astros defeat the Phillies in Osceola County Stadium. We liked how Pence pumped his fist as he crossed the plate with the winning run as if it were the final game of the World Series, not just a rest-the-veterans mid-March spring practice. We also pondered how great it would be to see young Pence doing the same thing in the Fall Classic, even though we are Yankees fans (and even though ?we? is really just ?I,? or ?me.?)I?ve been reading about Pence more and more the past several weeks -- and tonight I watched him run back to snare a certain extra-base hit near the fence in San Francisco. It?s...
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Here's how to analyze trends
2007-05-22 14:00:00
Scott Miller, senior writer for CBS Sportsline, writes a wonderful analysis piece on the state of hitting in the majors. This is the type of story that baseball fanatics (like myself) love, and a story that student-journalists should emulate. In the lead item for his Weekend Buzz, Miller tries to determine why hitters aren?t hitting this season. (It can?t just be a lack of steroids, right?) Scoring and batting averages are at their lowest since 1992, the usually prolific Cardinals can?t hit homers (going 93 innings without one before last Monday), and Darin Erstad is leading the White Sox in hitting at a paltry .258. Geez. That makes the accomplishments of hitters like Derek Lee, Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada all the more impressive. Miller breaks down these major-league hitting woes by citing both managers and hitting coaches, and by analyzing statistics. It?s a nice, short piece worth reading (and emulating).
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McPhee brings reporting to new level in this classic book
2007-05-21 15:32:00
John McPhee reveals much about the two protagonists in his book Levels of the Game. McPhee discloses their political beliefs, backgrounds, political opinions and fears. He also shows the reader how the main characters ? Arthur Ashe and Chuck Graebner ? play a game that has made them well known. But the game of tennis itself also reveals much about these two young players competing in the semifinals of the 1968 U.S. Open championships. McPhee writes that tennis, like any game, reflects an individual?s personality: ?A person?s tennis game begins with his nature and background and comes out through his motor mechanisms into shot patterns and characteristics of play? (McPhee 6). In the course of describing the tennis match, McPhee diverges from game descriptions to offer anecdotes, stories and commentaries about these two men. Sometimes, the diversions roll along for many pages. At other times, they stray for just a few sentences. As illuminating as these digressions are, they pale besi...
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You can help some kids get a field for their dreams
2007-05-19 19:10:00
Just read through some of the essays on a website, where kids explained why their towns need money to build a new field -- or to fix one up. Coaches across the country are spending countless hours raking fields, putting in fences, and painting dugouts so some young kids can learn about sport (and themselves.) Wish they all could get money for their fields.My girls just helped inaugurate two softball fields in our east central Illinois town, something that took about 10 years to complete. Some city parents spent a great deal of time in raising the money, building fences, doing carpentry and electrical work, and painting. The first pitch this morning brought a tear to one of the fathers who started this work. His kids are out of school now, but he is excited that other kids will get the chance to play on this field. That's why I was out there raking the field between games -- and will go back and do some more later this afternoon. (To pay back those who spent much more time in making...
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A class act
2007-05-16 22:23:00
Some nights, I really miss playing baseball. Like last Friday night when I sat along the third-base line, leaning on the fence and talking with some youth league coaches and parents about the pending game. A soft breeze blew over the freshly mown field in east central Illinois, whose sweet smell reminded me of days spent roaming across such fields back in New Jersey. I loved nights like this, as much for the beauty of the moment as for the competition. I miss the joy of playing.But on this night, I was able to see the next best thing ? my daughters were set to play the first game of a weekend softball tournament for a travel team filled with small, thin but fast and determined young girls, a team that has improved dramatically since last fall. And they were set to play a powerhouse Shelbyville team, a squad that had just knocked off two of the best teams in the state of Illinois.Publicly, we told the girls any team is beatable. Privately, we hoped the game would just be close. As I ...
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Crafting profiles when the main character won't speak
2007-05-16 04:09:00
Joe DiMaggio stood alone in his restaurant, staring out a bay window at the San Francisco wharf where tourists watched the fishermen repair their nets. One pretty blue-eyed blonde brushed her hair back and took some photos. DiMaggio, holding a cigarette, followed her with his gaze as she walked down the street before returning to his table where he finished his tea. DiMaggio, at age fifty-one, no longer played before fifty-thousand fans at Yankee Stadium, but people still flocked to see him. Only DiMaggio never felt comfortable talking with people, least of all a writer who wanted to delve into his private life, something he guarded at all costs. DiMaggio sneaked into a back room when the writer entered the restaurant, spoiling any chance for an interview.Gay Talese never had a chance to interview DiMaggio, but that did not stop him from writing a profile that has set the standard for all others. In fact, ?The Silent Season of a Hero,? was named the greatest sports article of the T...
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Send me your questions
2007-05-15 15:36:00
Have a question about sports reporting (or sports coverage in general)? Send me a note. I'd be glad to help out. You can send them to jgisondi@gmail, which is also listed in my profile. As always, please post comments below my postings to add additional insights, ask questions or just start a dialogue with others. Hope you all are doing well with your summer sports assignments.-30-
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KO the acronyms, OK?
2007-05-11 18:02:00
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., is leaving DEI.No, not Directed Electronics Inc., which is the largest supplier of home theater loudspeakers and remote auto start systems.And not Design Engineering Inc., the self-proclaimed ?proud supporter? of several auto-racing teams.NASCAR fans are shaking their heads, knowing Earnhardt is leaving his father?s auto racing team, aptly named ?Dale Earnhardt Inc.? after Dale?s dad who died in a car crash at Daytona about six years ago. Dale Jr. has worked to extend his father?s auto-racing legacy, but, apparently, he does not get along so well with his mother-in-law, Teresa, whom he blames for the team?s woes the past several years. I?ll leave the deeper analysis to the experts who cover auto racing.I?m more interested in why we love acronyms. ?DEI? was tossed around by broadcasters and analysts on ESPN?s SportsCenter and Pardon the Interruption (that?s ?PTI? to my street sports homeys) last night as easily as if they were saying ?NFL? or ?NBA.? Our job as jo...
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Stats (and why we love sports)
2007-05-07 17:16:00
Stats are just one means for evaluating a player's success. But they are interesting and compelling, nonetheless. Brad Schultz offers some great resources for finding and evaluating stats in baseball, football, hockey and basketball in a posting at the Journal for Sports Media.Disclosure (and shameless plug): As many of you might know I also blog for this site. I commented on some reasons stats are just one means for evaluating success -- a point my daughter drove home last week.Plus, Angela K. Renkoski discusses the death of Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock and why these events matter to those more emotionally invested in sports. She writes: "We watch on the promise that we might see something we've never seen before, and sports delivers this just often enough to keep us satisfied." Check it out.-30-
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This book will help you 'Watch Baseball Smarter'
2007-05-04 17:49:00
Just picked up a book that every baseball writer should pack away in the satchel. Zack Hample?s Watch ing Baseball Smarter does exactly that by teaching fans (and sports writers) how to better understand the game. You can learn how to calculate earned-run averages, on-base percentages, and fielding averages, among other things. You can also learn how a split-fingered fastball drops when it reaches the plate, why a knuckleball flutters, and how to grip a four-seam fastball. You?ll also learn more about pitch sequences.This book also includes some history, such as the fact balls caught on one-bounce were originally called outs, that the pitching mound was originally 50 feet from the plate until 1893, and that foul balls were not called strikes until 1901.The strength of this book is in its clear explanations of the game itself, such as a breakdown on how players field each defensive position, strategies for running (and stealing) bases, how umpires call games, and how to calculate and ...
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Quotes: Avoid cliches like the plague
2007-05-02 23:56:00
As we all know, it?s not over until the fat lady sings (humming won?t do). That?s why we need to follow the games intensely, leaving it all on the floor like the athletes we cover. Each time we head out to write another gamer, it?s a whole new ball game.Teams that lose always seem to be out of synch, lacking composure to get back on track and leaving them with a tough road to hoe (or even to rake).Even winning teams have some challenges since no lead is safe. (Just ask the Cubs.) These teams cannot afford to be lackadaisical; instead, they need to go for the jugular in order to blow the game wide open.Let?s face it: We get an awful lot of these clichéd comments from coaches and athletes. This is not lost on athletes, even fictional ones like Crash Davis, the veteran catcher in ?Bull Durham,? who mentors Ebby Calvin LaLoosh on many things ? including how to respond during interviews.Crash Davis: You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna...
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