The Battle for Attention:
In the left corner, standing at 5-foot-10, wearing khaki pants, a dark brown sports coat and matching fedora hat, the Daily Newspaper. He’s got his notepad and typewriter warmed up and ready to win you over with his silver words hot off the press. He represents the old school. Your grandpa tells you he remember when Mickey Mantle hit the towering home run with a flick of the wrist to help the Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox. He doesn’t actually remember it because he saw it. He remembers it because of Joe Daily’s writing he read the next morning over breakfast....
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If It Happens, It Happens; but Today, Let's Play Ball: From Clinton to the Majors:
It’s one of the few things in an ever-changing world that has, for the most part, stayed the same. It’s been able to withstand father time. It’s been able to withstand wars and disaster. It’s even been able to withstand unrest from within its own kind.
For decades men have skipped work and kids have played hooky from class in order to attend games set on a patch of grass and sand...