Modern sportswriting began with Dick Young. Modern baseball writing began with Peter Gammons. Am I biased? Absolutely. We've been friends since starting work as Globe summer interns June 10, 1968. We worked on the same story that day. Bobby Kennedy had been assassinated late in the previous week and our job, in those pre-Internet days, was to phone around the ... (Full article: 387 words)

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