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Keepers of the Game
Dennis D'Agostino
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Description for Keepers of the Game
Keepers of the Game celebrates the last generation of baseball writers whose careers were rooted in Teletype machines, train travel and ten-team leagues and who wielded an influence and power within the game that are unthinkable today. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 B index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WSBX; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 172 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
There was a time when the most prestigious job on a major newspaper belonged to the baseball beat writer, who enjoyed unparalleled longevity and influence within his profession. Through a variety of events and circumstances—television, expansion, all-sports radio, lifestyle changes, and the Internet revolution—those days are long gone. The baseball beat writers endure, but jobs change, and they have faced new challenges. Keepers of the Game celebrates the last generation of baseball writers whose careers were rooted in Teletype machines, train travel, and ten-team leagues, and who wielded an influence and power within the game that are unimaginable today. Dennis ... Read more
There was a time when the most prestigious job on a major newspaper belonged to the baseball beat writer, who enjoyed unparalleled longevity and influence within his profession. Through a variety of events and circumstances—television, expansion, all-sports radio, lifestyle changes, and the Internet revolution—those days are long gone. The baseball beat writers endure, but jobs change, and they have faced new challenges. Keepers of the Game celebrates the last generation of baseball writers whose careers were rooted in Teletype machines, train travel, and ten-team leagues, and who wielded an influence and power within the game that are unimaginable today. Dennis ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597976916
SKU
V9781597976916
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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About Dennis D'Agostino
DENNIS D'AGOSTINO is the author of Garden Glory: An Oral History of the New York Knicks (2003) and coauthor of Through a Blue Lens: The Brooklyn Dodger Photographs of Barney Stein, 1939–1957 (2007). Recognized by his peers in the sports community as one of its leading historians and as an accomplished author and practitioner of the oral history process, ... Read more
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