The Lion in Winter--a newspaper writer preaches, dreams, grasps

The old purveyor of public service angle dies hard--that you need him because you wouldn't otherwise be informed. Mr. Rosenberg says in reference to baseball writing of past & present: "A basic difference between now and then is that while box scores today generally contain a lot more detail, the prose that accompanies them is often a lot less devoted to the various plays in the game. One explanation for the change is that fielding is now so much more reliable (look how big the gloves are!), so that descriptions of plays might seem especially trite. By contrast, fielding in the early days was often done with no gloves or flimsy ones. In addition, the games were often umpired by just one person. So, the games themselves had a lot more variety, for colorful description, than those of today." He's a Knight Ridder service writer, this report from the Mercury News. (We have prose, too).

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