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

Author/creator Castle, George
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxii, 262 pages ; 22 cm
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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.
General note"Bison books"--P. [i].
LCCN 2006015462
ISBN0803264690 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780803264694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780803264694