Summary
Allen recounts his days of glory covering baseball's field of dreams. Baseball was always his main beat, though he had a piece of among other things, the Knicks in their glory days three decades ago. What made baseball so intriguing was a six-week paid vacation in spring training in Florida during the biting New York winters and the expense-account trips to San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles or Anaheim during the season. In the end, what made it for him as a sportswriter was the never-ending thrill of a byline over a story everybody would read.
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The Joys of Being a Sportswriter
IN THE SUMMER OF 1962 I sat on the bench of the original New York Mets in the old Polo Grounds in New York City with manager Casey Stengel.
He was rambling on about his time with the Brooklyn Dodgers, his teammate Zack Wheat, his battle...See the full content of this document
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