GOAT writers, by sport

Peter Gammons' story from Game 6 of the 1975 World Series is widely hailed as one of the best gamers ever. I'm not crazy about it, though.

 

LOL. No. Saying that GOATS tend to have longevity, because all that experience adds up and shows. But that longevity alone is a slippery slope

 

Pretty sure he covered the Orioles for The Post, at least at one point. Until they got the Nationals, The Post treated the Orioles as the home team.

 

Part of being an all-time great is longevity, though.

 

Second the idea that Buster Olney was a better beat writer than Young. Olney gamers worth reading because
He would observe things that most would miss. I read somewhere that he was Wellington Marra's favorite
baseball writer.

For the NFL would call it a toss up between Dr Z and McDonough.

 

Shit, that clinches it for me.

 

Yeah I know blue font , ect ect. Just thought it was an interesting bit of trivia. Supposedly Marra was really
disappointed when The Times pulled Olney off the beat. He was a loyal follower.

 

Red Fisher is the perfect example...

 

The horrible deadline situation of this event is right there in the copy, so this probably qualifies as nit-picking.

But a baseball "crashing" off mesh? I'm assuming Peter had to grip 'n' rip, no time to search for a better word.

 

I actually preferred, way back then as just a reader, Bob Ryan's lede on his Reds sidebar story for that game, which read. "Too bad baseball is such dull sport, eh, gang?"

 

And that's how Ryan talks. But I've always cringed at folksy things in written pieces, like "gang?" Or "eh." Or "yup." Or "you bet." Fingernails on a blackboard to me, actually. What works when spoken doesn't always work when typed.

Should have stuck the period after "sport" and moved on IMHO. The sarcasm would have been evident in context.

 

It's a matter of taste, Joe. The colloquial verbal style doesn't bother me, but I can see how it might bother you.