I am not a stalwart defender of “the good old days” which were not necessarily good.  But, when that venture in Bristol, Ct was launched back in the 70s, it was inevitable that sports media would change.  Somewhere in Heaven’s Press Box, Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich and Jim Murray weep.

    

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The first thing I ever wanted to “be” was a sportswriter.  That’s what I told Agnes Freeman; Guidance Counselor at Jesse W. Grainger High School.  After a Moses-esque 40 years wandering the corporate wilderness, I have become one of a fashion. 

If I had become a writer while still in short pants I would have brought to the keyboard the profoundly shallow perspective that short pants writers bring to their craft.  To possess any de gree of perspective on the

that the perspector be well marinated in LIFE.

interaction of people and events in a historical context requires that the perspector be well-marinated in Life prior to having a by-line. There is something to be said for the know-it-all absoluteness of a fuzzy-cheeked perspective. Not MUCH, but surely something.