Thursday, January 09, 2014

How Baseball Writers Handled the Steroids Crisis While It Was Happening

I've never really read about this steroids mess from this angle before. I thought it was really interesting. This quote from the piece gives you a good idea of what follows:
"For baseball writers, this period is when innocence was lost, when their jobs changed forever. The Hall of Fame vote is not some new expression of professional grief. It is an echo."