MLB Media Guides

[Pete Incaviglia]

How do I go about obtaining one from each club?

I had no problems a few years ago (maybe three, four) when MLB.com allowed the media to register online at its website. That allowed access to MLB's league directory, which listed each team's media relations person.

However, I can't seem to find that link on MLB.com anymore. And, not every team's website has a complete contact page so I can e-mail/fax the appropriate party.

Can anyone help?

 

[ChillyWilly]

Try www.mlbpressbox.com

 

[buckweaver]

The MLB Pressbox site is the best for media relations contacts.

Just send an e-mail to the appropriate contact, and they're usually prompt about getting a guide out to you (... when they're completed.) Some teams take longer to print their guides than others, because rosters aren't set, etc. Others are very lax about actually mailing 'em out. I'm looking at you, Tampa!

The way we usually get ours is by sending our columnist out to the ballpark on Opening Day and bringing back a box full of 'em from around the league. After that, I start e-mailing teams for the ones we're missing.

 

[MileHigh]

Media guides are posted for each team at the site.

 

[BYH]

The MLB Pressbox site is the best for media relations contacts.

Just send an e-mail to the appropriate contact, and they're usually prompt about getting a guide out to you (... when they're completed.) Some teams take longer to print their guides than others, because rosters aren't set, etc. Others are very lax about actually mailing 'em out. I'm looking at you, Tampa!

You didn't hear? They didn't make one this year. If you really need something, they have a two-sided information sheet for your perusal.

 

[Stone Cane]

media guides are obsolete

just download all the *.pdfs, put 'em in a folder on your desktop, and off we go

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

Try www.mlbpressbox.com

Thanks Chilly this is the link I remembered. I don't why I couldn't find it.

Thanks to everyone else, too.

As for obsolete, I still prefer the hard copy.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

<i>As for obsolete, I still prefer the hard copy.</i>

Until you have a lug a full set of them home and find shelf space for them. <s>They're just too damn big.</s> They're so comprehensive.

 

[KoM]

If it's a media guide I use once or twice a week, I want a real media guide sitting on the corner of my desk throughout the season. If it's one I use once or twice a season, pdf copy is fine.

A couple of years ago at a media day, one SID came around handing out CDs instead of printed media guides. His old school coach ripped him a new one right there in front of the room.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

The MLB Pressbox site is the best for media relations contacts.

Just send an e-mail to the appropriate contact, and they're usually prompt about getting a guide out to you (... when they're completed.) Some teams take longer to print their guides than others, because rosters aren't set, etc. Others are very lax about actually mailing 'em out. I'm looking at you, Tampa!

The way we usually get ours is by sending our columnist out to the ballpark on Opening Day and bringing back a box full of 'em from around the league. After that, I start e-mailing teams for the ones we're missing.

They've removed the e-mail addresses from the list. All that's left are phone numbers.

 

[Prince of Persia]

<i>As for obsolete, I still prefer the hard copy.</i>

Until you have a lug a full set of them home and find shelf space for them. <s>They're just too damn big.</s> They're so comprehensive.

I think Atlanta stopped making a hard copy a few years back. I remember getting a disc in the mail and I was totally confused.

 

[fishwrapper]

The phone?

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

They've removed the e-mail addresses from the list. All that's left are phone numbers.

Yes, but you can still get the names. So it's not too hard to piece together an e-mail address after that.

Or you can just, you know, pick up the phone.

I know, I'm going to. It's just that's not as convenient as e-mail at, say, 2 a.m. after my shift.

 

[BYH]

Awesome.

 

[BYH]

And as for the hard copy being obsolete...when I can easily thumb thru a pdf, instead of awkwardly scrolling down the screen and repeatedly missing the page I want, let me know.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

<i>As for obsolete, I still prefer the hard copy.</i>

Until you have a lug a full set of them home and find shelf space for them. <s>They're just too damn big.</s> They're so comprehensive.

I think Atlanta stopped making a hard copy a few years back. I remember getting a disc in the mail and I was totally confused.

Nobody in MLB has stopped making a hard copy.

 

[leo1]

And as for the hard copy being obsolete...when I can easily thumb thru a pdf, instead of awkwardly scrolling down the screen and repeatedly missing the page I want, let me know.

you know about printers, right?

 

[fishwrapper]

And as for the hard copy being obsolete...when I can easily thumb thru a pdf, instead of awkwardly scrolling down the screen and repeatedly missing the page I want, let me know.

you know about printers, right?

Printers?

 

[fishwrapper]

 

[joe_schmoe]

At former place of employment we had an agate clerk who notoriously would somehow print out the entire days sports wire.
To this day I have no clue how he did it...just some odd command he accidentally pressed.

Always fun waiting for the printer to finish printing several hundred items.