Baseball and the media : how fans lose in today's coverage of the game /

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What sports fans read, watch, and listen to at home often isn't the real story coming out of the locker room or the front office. George Castle should know; he's covered baseball in Chicago for decades and witnessed the widening gulf between the media and the teams they're supposed to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Castle, George
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Baseball > Social aspects > United States.
Mass media and sports > United States.
Base-ball > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Médias et sports > États-Unis.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
Baseball > Social aspects.
Mass media and sports.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A long, strange journey to the press box and clubhouse
  • Old-time players and scribes
  • The baseball beat writer
  • Celebrity players or upstanding role models?
  • Not baseball's golden children
  • LaTroy and Carl as Jekyll and Hyde
  • A lot less chewin' the fat with managers
  • All the news that's not fit to print
  • The red and blue states of baseball journalism
  • The politics of baseball media
  • Chicago a toddlin', but soft, baseball media town
  • No-shows in the press box and clubhouse
  • Sports-talk radio
  • No more Harry Carays
  • Old versus new media.

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