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Title Baseball and the media : how fans lose in today's coverage of the game / George Castle.
Author Castle, George.
Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  796.357 CAS    Check Shelves
Description xii, 262 p. ; 22 cm.
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 -- Afterword.
Subject Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States.
Mass media and sports -- United States.
ISBN 0803264690 : $24.95
9780803264694 : $24.95