The newsweeklies cover the one-week-old baseball strike and Esquire gives everyone an IQ test. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas -- from exactly 30 years ago.
Here in shrinking Pittsburgh, we didn't know it in 1994, but because of the way the MLB is set up to favor big-market teams (no salary caps), the Pirates had become a sub-.500 minor league team, apparently for the rest of eternity.
Yep. I say these players are A League material. Of course we get to watch some first round draft picks for a few years, but MLB is more to me than watching great athletes run around a pristine playground in short pants. Can’t we at least have a *chance* to win?
I too was born on august 16th, 1954. I grew up seeing it at the news stands(Dad didn’t subscribe and i couldn’t afford it until ‘76 after college). I loved the magazine and whoever got the cover photo and story was BIG news and an honor. Now SI has guys in their swimsuit issue. Does the print version even get published?
Thanks. I honestly don't know if SI has a print edition. It'd be monthly. From 1990 to 2007 I diligently followed the magazine world's ups and downs and wrote a weekly column about their contents for the Pgh Post-Gazette and Pgh Trib -- one of which is on its deathbed and one which is dead. Now I heardly turn a page...
Dad was an old Pittsburgh Press newsboy in McKee’s Rocks way back in the day. We always got the Press at our house. Phil Musick’s coverage of the ‘70s Steelers was a must read. Today I subscribe to zero newspapers or magazines. During my working years at a retail stock brokerage, I got three daily papers and two or three weekly magazines and two monthlies. And I read as much now as ever. Of course being a retiree gives me the luxury of time. ✌🏼👴🏼
That strike! Killed baseball for me. I pretty much stopped following the sport after that.
Here in shrinking Pittsburgh, we didn't know it in 1994, but because of the way the MLB is set up to favor big-market teams (no salary caps), the Pirates had become a sub-.500 minor league team, apparently for the rest of eternity.
Yep. I say these players are A League material. Of course we get to watch some first round draft picks for a few years, but MLB is more to me than watching great athletes run around a pristine playground in short pants. Can’t we at least have a *chance* to win?
BEAT ‘EM BUCS!!
I too was born on august 16th, 1954. I grew up seeing it at the news stands(Dad didn’t subscribe and i couldn’t afford it until ‘76 after college). I loved the magazine and whoever got the cover photo and story was BIG news and an honor. Now SI has guys in their swimsuit issue. Does the print version even get published?
Outstanding column Bill!
Thanks. I honestly don't know if SI has a print edition. It'd be monthly. From 1990 to 2007 I diligently followed the magazine world's ups and downs and wrote a weekly column about their contents for the Pgh Post-Gazette and Pgh Trib -- one of which is on its deathbed and one which is dead. Now I heardly turn a page...
Dad was an old Pittsburgh Press newsboy in McKee’s Rocks way back in the day. We always got the Press at our house. Phil Musick’s coverage of the ‘70s Steelers was a must read. Today I subscribe to zero newspapers or magazines. During my working years at a retail stock brokerage, I got three daily papers and two or three weekly magazines and two monthlies. And I read as much now as ever. Of course being a retiree gives me the luxury of time. ✌🏼👴🏼