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Covering the Bases: The Most Unforgettable Moments in Baseball inthe Words of the Writers and Broadcasters Who Were There

Covering the Bases: The Most Unforgettable Moments in Baseball inthe Words of the Writers and Broadcasters Who Were There

by Benedict Cosgrove (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

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Take a seat in the bleachers for the 25 most dramatic, legend-making events in baseball history. Covering the Bases is the only collection of sports writing, radio transcripts, and photographs that puts readers right in the ballpark. From Babe Ruth's most famous home run to Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier and Cal Ripken's 2,131st game, here are some of the greatest players in their loftiest moments -- as covered by the writers, announcers, and photographers who were there.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 11 Oct 1996
ISBN 10: 0811811506
ISBN 13: 9780811811507

Media Reviews
--Bob Greene, Chicago Tribune, April 1997 If the baseball season is already beginning to feel a little dreary to you, think how baseball writers must feel. After all, the writers who cover the teams have the job of reporting on 162 games a season. Yet -- as anyone who reads the sports pages knows -- the stories they turn out often have litttle to do with baseball games. In the sports world we now live in, the newspaper stories about baseball and baseball players concern criminal cases; concern management-labor disagreements; concern stadium revenue issues; concern fans' apathy; concern pension plan negotiations. What fun can it be to write about those things? Covering the Bases. ..recalls some of the greatest days and nights in baseball history by seeking out and republishing the reports of the sports jounalists who wrote about (and broadcast) the games. If Cosgrove's intention was to use the technique of finding the vintage sports page stories to make sports history seem newly immediate, he succeeded with a parallel accomplishment, too -- he brought back a time when sportswriters got to write about sports. When the games were what counted -- or at least what we allowed ourselves to believe were what counted.
Author Bio
Benedict Cosgrove is an editor, journalist, and writer who lives in San Francisco. Ron Rapoport is a nationally syndicated columnist for the LA Daily News, NPR correspondent for Weekend Edition, and editor of A Kind of Grace, a collection of sports writing by women.