Now "Baseball Digest" is hanging by a thread

BYH · Jun 24, 2009

Joe Williams said:

Used to take or buy one on the family's summer camping trips, then read it at night in the car from the campground, using the dome light while listening to my favorite team's game broadcast on the scratchy AM radio. And my old man yelling at me to knock it off, because I was draining the car battery.

Later, I had my first story picked up in the Digest and felt like I had joined the fraternity.

Later still, I worked for a newspaper whose policy was to claim 75 percent of any revenues generated from re-published material. The Digest folks were sending our checks to our work address, and someone in Accounting would grab them first, then issue a line item on our paychecks for $18.75, our measly 25 percent of the $75 reprint fee. Glad to see that all those $56.25 contributions helped my newspaper plan properly for these Internet-challenged, new-millennium hard times.

BTW, I get equally nostalgic when I see a Who's Who in Baseball on the newstand each spring. That was an annual ritual, sure sign of approaching spring.
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Bill Shannon rules. does he still have Norm MacLean listed as an assistant editor, for reasons nobody can quite determine?

Smasher_Sloan · Jun 24, 2009

A montage of Bill Shannon official scoring calls should be on youtube.

BYH · Jun 24, 2009

goalmouth said:

In junior high school I happened on someone's copy of Baseball Digest in class. A slugging Joe Morgan was on the cover, with penciled-in doodles such as "What a blast," "There goes another homer," and cheering fan stick figures.

Today, that all seems like hieroglyphics in the ruins of a lost civilization.
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I love how even today the Baseball Digest headlines seem as if they were written in 1968. "Chase Utley: Baseball's top second baseman."

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