THIS is baseball reporting

I am also a Shaughnessy fan. Yes, we are out here.

I thought he did a nice job this morning:

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/10/28/lesters_feel_good_story_never_gets_old/

 

Longtime listener, occasional poster.
Gordo's the best, a wonderful fellow, a relentless reporter and an eloquent writer. Read his work for a week, any week, and it will restore your faith in things.
Beyond all that, Gordo is also -- to steal from another thread -- one of the people who influenced me. I was working in Anniston, making $225 a week, when Gordo asked the Sun-Sentinel to hire a new Marlins beat writer so he could concentrate on national stuff. For no good reason, Gordo and Fred Turner picked me. It was a terrible hire. I had no business covering baseball for a paper that size. But Gordo helped me through, and helps me to this day.
Thanks, Dave, for shining a light on Gordo's work, and for giving me the chance to thank him semi-publicly.

 

Kudos to Kindred for pointing it out. He's a pretty fair writer in his own right.

 

As one of Bill Dwyre's best hires, Gordon covered the Showtime Lakers for the LA Times during the mid-late 80s. Talk about the perfect storm of marquee team and marquee writers...

 

Not to thread jack, but didn't know Gabe Kapler was a minor league manager now. How his name has not been associated with steriods yet baffles me. Just maybe, maybe he was naturally able to get jacked as he was.

 

Edes' piece was outstanding.
Read in a long-ago Wall Street Journal profile of Gammons that he wrote his late gamer on Game 7 of the 1975 series in something like seven or eight minutes. Not sure I could type that fast on anything. Don't know if he had a manual, an electric, or that newfangled PortaBubble.