sportswriter
Noun
Meaning
sportswriter (plural sportswriters)
Alternative form of sports writer (journalist who specializes in sports).
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A noted case is the book written by sportswriter Al Stump in the months after Cobb died in 1961.
He finished one vote short of a unanimous MVP selection, as a Minnesota sportswriter placed Twins center fielder César Tovar first on his ballot. citation But the Red Sox lost the series—again to the St. Louis Cardinals, in seven games.
He was occasionally criticized for refusing to swing at a borderline pitch to put a ball in play when it might have helped advance a runner or score a run (a recurring theme among sportswriter critics was that "Ted plays for himself.").
He managed to go six-plus innings in a game that Paige's team ultimately lost 10 to 3. One sportswriter wrote that Paige looked like a "squeezed lemon."
Another bittersweet moment in Cobb's life reportedly came in the late 1940s, when he and sportswriter Grantland Rice were returning from the Masters golf tournament.
I didn’t know why, but from then on, I no longer attempted to leave the house and travel to Manila to do the job I have been doing, come hell and high water, for 49 years since I was named sportswriter in 1971, a year before Martial Law was declared.