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November 20, 2009

Blogging In 1974

Daniel Shoptaw, the man behind the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, is posting short Q&As of BBA members. Here's mine.

One thought: this blog is a clear descendant of the sports pages I created on my parents' electric typewriter roughly 35 years ago. Also, I love hearing about other writers who did similar things when they were kids.
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16 comments:

  1. allanNovember 20, 2009 at 7:10 AM

    LBJ has changed his # from 46 to 2.

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  2. RobNovember 20, 2009 at 7:40 AM

    That's sad. 2 is a shitty number. Number 2. A big ol' deuce. It's not even fast, it just weighs you down. Shit.

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  3. FenFanNovember 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM

    Check out Surviving Grady's take on this...

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  4. laura kNovember 20, 2009 at 10:58 AM

    That bio of yours at BBA does not do justice to your writing career. You've been writing professionally since you're a teenager! No mention of your book.

    Me no like.

    [And PS I ain't buying a new shirt! I'm sticking with #46.]

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  5. allanNovember 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    I mentioned writing in high school right off the bat. I'll email him about the book.

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  6. laura kNovember 20, 2009 at 1:34 PM

    Oh good. Never miss an opportunity!

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  7. SoSockNovember 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM

    It's cool that you were the first one on his list of bloggers worth inerviewing.
    And it means a lot that ramrodding that project through to get the car for Cathy ranks so high on your list of achievements.
    Thanks again.....to all of you, but especially to you and L

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  8. laura kNovember 21, 2009 at 4:46 AM

    Ah, bio is much better now! Your publicist and editor is pleased.

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  9. allanNovember 21, 2009 at 6:24 AM

    It's cool that you were the first one on his list of bloggers worth inerviewing.

    I believe he's going in order of blogs who joined and I happened to answer his initial email about the alliance idea first -- easy enough, since I live at my computer during the week. No other reason than that!

    And it means a lot that ramrodding that project through to get the car for Cathy ranks so high on your list of achievements.

    It's not even close. I enjoy doing the blog and some people like reading it, but it almost never "achieves" anything tangible and real and truly useful. After your car, I'm hard-pressed to think of what could be #2 on the list, if anything.

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  10. allanNovember 21, 2009 at 6:28 AM

    When I posted your "thank you", I said this: "It feels great to use this blog for something more than debating 7th-inning pitching changes, using silly nicknames and posting jpgs of the Daily News".

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  11. RobNovember 21, 2009 at 7:49 AM

    Oh hey, Sosock, I was down in Charlotte last week which was sort of close to your neck of the woods! I was driving along down 77, seeing signs for Winston-Salem and thinking, "Hey, I'm in Tim Territory now!" Thought you'd get a kick out of it. Do you get to Charlotte very much? I really liked it. My sister had a job interview in Huntersville.

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  12. timNovember 21, 2009 at 11:02 AM

    Sweet!

    I recently found a piece I wrote when I must've been, shit, 8, 9 years old...it was a postgame story about a minor-league hockey game I went to. Decent read! Couple minor grammar edits and it could probably be published in most newspapers!

    And I'm not a fan of the switch to 2 for LBJ either.

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  13. laura kNovember 21, 2009 at 1:37 PM

    After your car, I'm hard-pressed to think of what could be #2 on the list, if anything.

    What blogs do best is form community, and that's what led to you pitching in for SoSock/Tim and Cathy. I see the Fundable campaign as coming out of the general context of JoS, especially gamethreads.

    Perhaps the second best would be JoS1.

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  14. SoSockNovember 22, 2009 at 4:50 AM

    Well, thank you again. I did use that car to get to JoS1 by the way. My van would never have made it. It made the trip to Boston twice a year while we had our soap business, but it's over 400k miles now, and there's no way.
    Ish - you were within about 20minutes of my house when you passed that sign on 77! I do get down to Charlotte several times a year, it's about an hour from me. Usually for a music show. It's a much bigger city and attracts some acts we don't get here. To see any big name act, we have to go to Charlotte or Raleigh, which is further, about 2 hours. And although the big names aren't what I go see the most, Charlotte also gets smaller avant garde acts we won't get here.

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  15. JereNovember 22, 2009 at 10:56 AM

    I still have a notebook from about '87 where I cut out each day's game articles and the standings and box score and pasted them in. That was my earliest logging. Later, the Web put the b on there.

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  16. allanNovember 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM

    I wish I had all my scoresheets and notebooks from 1976-81 or so. I'm surprised the actual Fenway programs of the few games I went to back (and Expos games!) then are not around. The earliest scoring stuff I have now is from late in the 1986 season. :<(

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