Sometimes it seems like the best Globe articles on the Sox these days are by the non-beat writers and sports columnists, such as Samantha Power’s “Once upon a Nomar” piece, a tribute to Nomar’s ability to capture the Boston public’s imagination.
Of course, someone once sent me Peter Gammons’ old writing for the Globe back in the 1970s and it’s kind of hard to compare anyone’s baseball writing with that - mastery in newsprint. Congratulations to Gammons for his Spink award - I thought it was kind of sad that the subhead on the MLB.com article on his induction read “Veteran sportswriter better known for television work” and was all about how comfortable he was on TV, when really it seems going on TV has caused the work to deteriorate somewhat…