Baseball Writers Brace for the End

Baseball Writers Brace for the End

Baseball’s independent press corps, once the most powerful in American sports, is fading. As newspapers cut budgets and payrolls, the press boxes at major league ballparks are becoming increasingly lonely places, signaling a future when some games may be chronicled only by wire services, house organs and Web writers watching the games on television.

wsj.com
4/7/09