S.L. Price on Mike Coolbaugh

If you get SI and haven't read it yet, do yourself a favor and do so. If you don't get SI, go buy it.

The kind of reporting that makes me just want to quit doing this because I don't see how it's possible. I have no clue how he was able to get close enough to Coolbaugh's team and family to write such an incredible piece, but it's the most amazing piece of sports writing I've read this year, maybe in the last couple years.

Between this and Gary Smith's Randy Shannon piece a couple weeks ago, SI is on a freaking role right now.

 

Or a roll.

 

Tough standards if you wanna be a Pulitzer.

 

I meant to post this a couple of hours ago.

You are a winnah!

I cried a little.

What a great, great story.

 

That's the only reason I posted.

 

First thing I read this week. Solid gold.

 

Awesome. Something to look forward to tomorrow.

 

There have been a couple pieces in SI recently that made me feel really, really bad about myself. Like I could never be that good, so why bother?

 

I dunno... Roxanne got in and she didn't have any standards

 

Cocaine's a hell of a drug ...

 

Unbelievable story.

If this passage doesn't send chills down your spine, nothing will..... "It was 8:53 p.m. Coolbaugh leaned over to Miller, standing on first. "We're down a couple runs, so don't get picked off," he said. "Freeze on a line drive." Then Mike Coolbaugh said his last words: "If you're going first to third, you've got to be sure.""

Here's the link to the story ... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/the_bonus/09/18/coolbaugh0924/

 

Thanks for the link. I can't wait to read again in print as well.

Wow, this as a followup to Smith's Shannon piece?? What a mini-run by SI.