“(Poitevint) offers $20,000,” Young wrote. But there was a section in there about Murray’s family and how they treated Orioles scout Ray Poitevint. It doesn’t seem to have been written as a hit piece - a Dick Young hit piece is hard to misidentify. The bulk of the column about Murray was positive. And for Game 2 of the 1979 World Series, he decided to write about Ed Murray, who had gone three-for-three a homer in that game. He was the most read sports columnist in America. When he was on the side of the right - as in his support for Jackie Robinson or his devotion to equality for women sportswriters - he could be downright heroic.īut at other times - like when he ran Tom Seaver out of New York or viciously attacked players he didn’t like with innuendo and smears - he was a destructive force. He was abrasive and arrogant, relentless and provocative, nasty and driven, loud and certain … and above all, powerful. But most people remember him after his baseball days, as a general sports columnist. It’s as if, in 1952, Dick Young already understood the Internet. Because that’s unusual and people read unusual things. But anytime, you hear me, ANYTIME you can get your story off the game you got to do it. “Nothing you can do about that, and it ain’t bad.
“You’re gonna write the games most of the time,” he told Roger Kahn in The Boys of Summer. Young was the sort of newspaper sports columnist that doesn’t probably doesn’t exist anymore, a lot like the Robert Duvall character in “The Natural.” He began as a baseball writer and there he changed the rules by being one of the first to go to the clubhouse, to get inside dirt, to challenge convention.
In 1979, during the Baltimore-Pittsburgh World Series, New York Daily News columnist Dick Young wrote a column that changed Eddie Murray’s life. Here’s a question: How good was Los Angeles’ Locke High School baseball team in 1973? Eddie Murray was the first baseman.
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