He started out covering an American Legion baseball game in Maine for a newspaper audition. He ended up covering some of the greatest moments and players in baseball history for three decades. Jerry Crasnick tells us what it was like to talk hitting with Tony Gwynn and talk pitching with Greg Maddux. Hear about meeting Pete Rose for the first time, how the Hit King joyfully filled notebooks with mangled syntax, and what it was like covering him daily during the infamous gambling scandal. Get the scoop on The Nasty Boys, but you won’t want a scoop of Marge Schott’s hash browns after one shared story. Good thing the owner banned him from the media dining room. Oh, and somehow Jerry can still hear despite being in the press box when Roseanne sang (screeched?) the national anthem in 1990. The ramparts!

Come back on August 18th when we are hanging out with Terence Moore!

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