Told you before that in a past life, I was a
sportswriter. I loved it. My mom once told
me, “You don’t work; you just sit and type
in an air-conditioned office and get in free
to ballgames.” She may have been right.
But it was good enough to do for about 25 of
my almost 40 years in the media business.
I’ve been fortunate enough to cover all kinds
of pro sports around the Atlanta area and
even got to cover Cardinal baseball at a paper
in Little Rock.
One of my plum assignments in Arkansas
was daily coverage of the St. Louis Cardinals’
AA minor-league baseball team. Couldn’t
wait to get to the ba