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Like so many others I awoke this morning to flick through social media channels for what came through the transom overnight, and there was a tweet from our friend Josh Rawitch at the Baseball Hall of Fame that Vin Scully had passed away. It hit me with such sadness on this beautiful August morning, but …
“It’s a model for how we should treat other people vs an artifact of the past.” -Andrew Constatino CBS Sunday ran a great piece recently on the reimagination of libraries as destinations of thought, creativity and community and how these once stodgy old buildings that were being made obsolete have become welcoming centers of new …
So there we were driving to The Shore Thursday night as the signal from WCBS 880 kind of drifted in and out as we listened to Howie Rose and Wayne Randazzo call the first of the Mets-Marlins series from CitiField. As always the guys were brining all kinds of stories into the broadcast, when Randazzo …
We are often asked what are the skills needed to find your way in the business of sports in the future. Parents of young athletes, recent graduates, kids who have become disillusioned with hours of countless hours in practice and tied to one sport still know they have a passion, have an interest in involvement, …
Saving lives through awareness and prevention one test at a time has been the dogged push for over twenty years for veteran MLB personality Ed Randall. A prostate cancer survivor, his “Fans 4 The Cure” Foundation has worked independently from an official designation for Major League Baseball for years raising funds and awareness for prostate cancer …
On October 15, 2018 I was in Seattle at a conference standing on a Pier looking at beautiful Mount Rainer when I looked at my phone and saw a notice that Paul Allen had passed away. How I ironic and unique was it to be standing there looking at the city he loved (and I …
The best observations are literally sitting there right in front of you, but you get too caught up in all the what if’s to realize them. I was catching up with some UK colleagues this past week in New York, and we were talking about MLB’s decision to continue to expand its footprint into the …
I don’t know Joey Zanaboni, and really only came to know more of him through this Washington Post piece that talked about his lengthy career journey, issues overcome and more importantly the crux of the matter…how he created his own identifiable style, his own voice and how he brings joy to his job. As we …
They are some of the most identifiable voices in sport anywhere in the world, those men and women who literally call the games. All have their own style, personality and in many cases identifiable emotions and signature calls and phrases. Yet until this past Thursday, even having been in some of those booths, I never …
This year as in most every Major and Minor League Baseball load up on promotions to draw casual fans and fill distressed seats. The days are filled with bobbleheads, gnomes, beach towels, caps and hundreds of others. (Here is a list of 10 new MILB promos worth checking). The overwhelming number are always geared towards …