Best baseball writers?

Every person mentioned on this thread is an outstanding journalist. I would be remiss if I didn't stick up for my old paper's baseball troika, Jeff Horrigan, Tony Massarotti, and Michael Silverman. They each have different strengths which complement each other wonderfully.

And of course I love Tyler Kepner. He went to my prep school alma mater, Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Del. In point of fact, he had his own baseball newsletter when he was 13. When I was at the Phoenix, I arranged for him to get a tour of Fenway.

Gosh, I'm old.

 

You're not. I love baseball stats as much as the next person, but my head was swimming after that too.

 

was that the prep school where Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell met?

there can't be many prep schools in Delaware

 

Dear writethendrink: There are more prep schools in Delaware than you might think. Enough to form a conference anyway. Tower Hill was a country day school-prep without overnights. The two musicians you mentioned must've gone to one of the two boarding schools, Sanford (where Walter Daivs did his PE year before North Carolina, and did a number on my brother when the latter tried to defend him) or St. Andrew's (where Dead Poets Society was filmed).

 

Troy Renck mentioned in the same galaxy as Verducci and Eades?

Someone is nuts.

Check this random selection from Renck:

Port St. Lucie, Fla. - Scott Rolen is in a hurry. Rain falls outside, promising a severe storm. He wants to leave Tradition Field. Doesn't need an interruption, so the interview request is poorly timed at best.

"Scott, you got a second?" I ask.

"Let's see, I can talk to you or get to my wife and child. What should I do?" Rolen responds.

Ah, the defending champion St. Louis Cardinals, a team that wears rings because they are adept at making tough decisions. The Cardinals won the World Series after winning just 83 games last season. They staggered into the playoffs, teeth-gnashing and criticism echoing in their skulls.

The Mets, Dodgers and Padres made trading deadline upgrades. The Cardinals, undercut by a thin farm system at a time when young players are the game's currency, remained perched, unchanged.

A month later, the baseball establishment was swallowing its tongues as the Cardinals upset the Detroit Tigers for their first title since 1982.


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Logic of the lead escapes me.

And we have teeth gnashing and tongues being swallowed in the first few paragraphs alone.

Yikes........

 

T.R. Sullivan

 

That's Marc Lancaster. He moved to the Tampa Trib this year. You're right, too. He's very good.

 

yes he is

 

I'm not Paul, nor do I work at The PD, but Hoynes' Indians coverage is very good.

As a Bucs fan, I've grown to like Kovacevic as well.

 

I should have included myself but I see that others named me.

 

that's funny... last year boots gets on me about how he's a big-time nfl writer

football and baseball beat? guy is amazing. just amazing, and worthy of all our admiration