Comments on: A competitive, contentious, combative bunch of characters

By: chris

chris — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:39:03 +0000

Damon Runyon thinks these pugs are all sissy-Mary’s. Back in his day…

By: Alan Clemons

Alan Clemons — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:37:43 +0000

Good stuff, Dave.

By: charles pierce

charles pierce — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:55:37 +0000

Dave — I liked the piece, too, but I just stopped by to say Hi to Asch, and Joan, and ‘Saps and all my buds.

By: Bill Millsaps

Bill Millsaps — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:13:29 +0000

After reading Kindred’s wonderful piece, I e-mailed him and asked how he could exclude the pugnacious Furman Bisher from a story about press box fisticuffs. Dave replied: “I had to keep the piece under 10,000 words.”

By: Wenalway

Wenalway — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:13:14 +0000

I always enjoy these fond recollections of the good, old days. I’m sure that if alcoholism, smoking, reverse racism, and general unprofessionalism had only been allowed to thrive a little longer, then journalism would have been SAVED!

Here’s hoping the fossils decompose into oil — soon.

By: joan ryan

joan ryan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:49:50 +0000

dave, you — and pieces like this — are the reason i miss writing sports . . . made my day . . .

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:04:06 +0000

David Cay Johnston…
PFTMSFTEAT?

By: Matt Winkeljohn

Matt Winkeljohn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:21:33 +0000

Good stuff. Wasn’t there, but recall the stories about former AJC baseball hack I.J. Rosenburg and Morris seamhead Bill Zack going at it in the Astrodome pressbox.

All my years, some 22 of them, can’t say I’ve ever been present for any fisticuffs between the brothers. A shatload of fussing and bitching, but no blows — at least not those landed upon one another.

By: Bruce McCormack

Bruce McCormack — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:51:52 +0000

I remember longtime Casper, Wyo., Star-Tribune sports editor Chuck Harkin coming at m.e. Phil McAuley in the dark parking lot after getting fired that day. With a baseball bat cocked behind his shoulder, he demanded his job back on threat of “taking your head off.” He got it back and the two worked on together for some more years!?!

By: Larry Weisman

Larry Weisman — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:02:12 +0000

I was there for the McDonough flattening of Clayborn. He was a fierce reporter and a guy who never backed down. Talk about your great moments in sports.