A few nuggets from Hall of Fame baseball writer Rick Hummel, a beat reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who spoke at today’s MPI sports conference here in St. Louis.
What motivates Hummel to keep writing about baseball after so many years:
“Every day you look at what you’ve done and say, ‘How can you do better?’ [...]
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Work hard (and realize when you screw up)
Keith Gave didn’t know what to expect from Red Wings players when he walked in their locker room for the first time. After all, he was the third writer assigned the hockey beat by the Detroit Free Press in only 18 months. Gave also knew that he was not a hockey expert.
The Red Wings players [...]
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