s Facebook going to be the new sports channel for cord-cutters?
Probably not, but it does raise some interesting factors and possibilities.
Tags: baseball, Facebook, interactive, interactivity, Major League Baseball
Archives: baseball
Opening Day 2018: Casey at the Bat
March 29, 2018 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: baseball.Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell;/ .
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;/ .
It pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,/
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.
Tags: baseball, Casey at the Bat, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, opening day, watercolor
Raymond Chandler and the development of the ‘private eye’; newsletter, Jan. 12, 2018
January 15, 2018 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: journalists, newsletter, watercolor.
This newsletter was sent to everyone on Jim’s email list (4,500) on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018. Special note: If you have unsubscribed to this list previously, I apologize for this email. I had some problems with the list over the past couple of weeks — due mainly to my incompetence — and some unsubscribers may have • Read More »
Tags: Alabama, Atlanta child murders, Atlanta Monster, baseball, Bear Bryant, crimes against English, detective fiction, English spellings, Georgia, J.D. Salinger, JPROF.com, lectern, libel, mystery, Noah Webster, Payne Lindsey, podium, private detective, private eye, public figure, Raymond Chandler, spelling, spring training, Sue Grafton, Tenderfoot TV, The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, U.S. Supreme Court, Up and Vanished, Victoria Comella, Wally Butts, watercolor
A journalist needs something to write about: Richard Ben Cramer, Alex Rodriguez and the book that did not get written
January 22, 2014 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: books, Home, reporters, reporting, writers, writing.
In 2006 Cramer sold both his publisher and his subject on a book about Alex Rodriguez, the star of the New York Yankees who was recently banned for a year by Major League Baseball for taking banned substances. The book had the title, The Importance of Being Alex: A Life with the Yankees. He had a $550,000 advance from the Hachette Book Group. Rodriguez had agreed to cooperate fully. In fact, he welcomed Cramer into his entourage. What happened after that is a sad tale but, unfortunately, not unique.
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Tags: A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez, baseball, books, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, Edmund Morris, Hachette Book Group, journalists, magazines, New York Yankees, performance enhancing drugs, Richard Ben Cramer, Ronald Reagan, S.L. Price, Sports Illustrated, writers
NYT article demonstrated the power of radio – and a radio station
October 31, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: baseball, Home, writing.
KMOX-AM in St. Louis has been broadcasting the St. Louis Cardinals baseball games (with a short interruption a few years ago) since 1926. The station is a powerful one — 50,000 watts — and spreads itself throughout the country when night falls and AM stations have their maximum reach. That fact has, over the years, • Read More »
Tags: baseball, Bob Costas, Busch Stadium, Harry Caray, Jack Buck, KMOX, New York Times, radio, radio station, St. Louis Cardinals