Notes on Differences in Sports Journalism over the Years

• It’s definitely a different dynamic between the media and players

• Mickey Morabito had to have been trying to get himself fired

• Steinbrenner is not a good guy but at least he cares about winning and holding people accountable

• Dick Young changed the game, for better or for worse?

• Billy Martin-led team morale is in the toilet

• Pepe and Klein did not have good integrity as journalists

• Industry significantly changed

• Sexism had no basis

• Didn’t know Reggie Jackson got so much hate

• Red Sox before 2000 doing Red Sox before 2000 things

• Newspapers place in society has been a roller coaster, guys like Dick Young changed the game but it definitely hurt relationships with players and caused for the decline in media access