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

What sports fans read, watch, and listen to at home often isn't the real story coming out of the locker room or the front office. George Castle should know; he's covered baseball in Chicago for decades and witnessed the widening gulf between the media and the teams they're supposed to...

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Main Author: Castle, George
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
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