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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 1/24/2006 12:25:53 PM
Title: Why he got out of sportswriting
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From J.D. SMITH: The Seattle Weekly story about sportswriters reminds me why I got out of the business. And in particular of the story that David Hirshey, a now ex-sportswriter for the New York Daily News, tells about his departure, as recounted by Alan Richman in The Death of Sportswriting: Hirshey had heard that Reggie Jackson of the NY Yankees fantasized about harmonizing with the O’Jays, and decided it was worth a column. “I walked up to him at his locker, and asked, ‘Reggie, I know you can carry a team. Can you carry a tune?’ He was facing me. He turned around lifted a leg, farted, and said, ‘How’s this tune?’ It was shortly thereafter that I left sportswriting." [Permalink]

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