In the new Second Edition, readers also explore sports reporting across multimedia platforms, developing a foundational understanding for social media, mobile media, visual storytelling, writing for television and radio, and applying sabermetrics. From auto racing to wrestling, author Joe Gisondi gives tips on the seemingly straightforward-like where to stand on the sideline and how to identify a key player-along with the more specialized-such as figuring out shot selection in lacrosse and understanding a coxswain’s call for a harder stroke in rowing. I am the author of the "Field Guide To Covering Sports," the second edition now available from Congressional Quarterly Press/SAGE, and "Monster Trek: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot" (U of Nebraska Press).įield Guide to Covering Sports, Second Edition goes beyond general guidance about sports writing, offering readers practical advice on covering 20 specific sports. Here’s my thread on Twitter on The Baseball 100. Here a few other books to consider – Thomas Boswell’s Why Time Begins on Opening Day, Edward Achorn’s Fifty-nine in ’84, Chris Ballard’s One Shot at Forever, Frank Deford’s The Old Ball Game, Dan Barry’s Bottom of the 33rd – or anything from the Best American Sports Writing series. No matter what else you do, read as much as you can to learn how to report, write and tell stories. If you’re looking for another terrific baseball book, check out Tyler Kepner’s K: A history of Baseball in Ten Pitches as well. Want to become a better sports journalist? Then read what are essentially 100 feature stories on baseball’s best players. Can’t really compare this to another of his books that I love, The Soul of Baseball, but I am reading it at the same pace as that book on Buck O’Neil. Since Christmas Eve, I have already read chapters on about 20 of these players.
(While you’re at it, might want to subscribe to America’s best sports writing site.) If you want to learn how to report, write and tell stories, check out Joe Posnanski’s The Baseball 100, a series that initiated on The Athletic’s media platform.
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