Comments on: On Writing, Baseball Writing, And The 21st Century http://pitchersandpoets.com/2009/04/08/on-writing-baseball-writing-and-the-21st-century/ both have their moments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ted http://pitchersandpoets.com/2009/04/08/on-writing-baseball-writing-and-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Ted Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:17:32 +0000 http://pitchersandpoets.com/?p=278#comment-27 I agree with the sentiment. Great writers are great writers, whether they're talking about infidelity or baseball. Roger Angell is always a good example, a writer who cracked the New Yorker scene with excellent writing that is a lot of the time about baseball. As an aside (and maybe this is kind of an obvious point), the current media environment, print vs. online etc., offers little guarantee anymore that something printed in a magazine will be as good as or better than a blog post. Most of Esquire is pap, and your standard back page opinion column in any magazine pales next to the best bloggers around. The hierarchy is shifting, and it's an interesting watch. I agree with the sentiment. Great writers are great writers, whether they’re talking about infidelity or baseball. Roger Angell is always a good example, a writer who cracked the New Yorker scene with excellent writing that is a lot of the time about baseball.

As an aside (and maybe this is kind of an obvious point), the current media environment, print vs. online etc., offers little guarantee anymore that something printed in a magazine will be as good as or better than a blog post. Most of Esquire is pap, and your standard back page opinion column in any magazine pales next to the best bloggers around. The hierarchy is shifting, and it’s an interesting watch.

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