The Athletic hires legendary baseball writer Peter Gammons

Source: awfulannouncing.com --- Friday, September 29, 2017
Over the past few months, The Athletic has brought in numerous big-name writers to head up a collection of subscription-based verticals, but few (if any) of those new hires have the quite the resume of the site’s newest addition: Peter Gammons. The longtime Baseball writer and 2004 Spink Award winner has joined The Athletic as a contributing writer, Athletic chief content officer Paul Fichtenbaum announced Friday. Thrilled to welcome the great @pgammo to The Athletic, where he will be a contributing writer. — Paul Fichtenbaum (@fichtenbaum) September 29, 2017 The latest The Athletic hires legendary Baseball writer Peter Gammons Inside Adrian Wojnarowski’s move to ESPN Puck Daddy’s Greg Wyshynski announces he’s leaving Yahoo Sports ESPN is throwing a lot of star-power at the early morning and the late night Gammons’ debut column posted Friday (excepted from the site’s paywall), and it’s a pleasure. What starts as a take on the tumultuous season of Red Sox pitcher David Price becomes a meditation on what makes a good teammate, complete with the type of stories only someone with Gammons’ pedigree could have at his disposal. (It doesn’t always work that way. The Red Sox of the late 1970s were a me-first team. Late one night, waiting for cabs after a flight into Minneapolis, pitchers Tom Burgmeier and Steve Renko watched one player after another hail cabs for themselves, starting the “25 guys, 25 cabs” line that became an infamous ru ...

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