Episode 337 of the Sports Media Podcast features three writers who were selected for The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2023 anthology. They are Alex Coffey of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Derrick Gould of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Cassidy Randall, a freelance writer whose piece from The Atavist Magazine was selected. In this podcast Coffey discusses her story (“The Phillies’ Andrew Bellatti Made a Fatal Mistake as a Teen. A Tale of Remarkable Forgiveness Followed”) and how it came to be; the challenge of telling the story of how Bellatti, then 18, killed a man in a car accident and how the man’s window forgave Bellatti; the reporting of the piece and more. Gould discusses his story (“A New Bat, Old Friends, and Timeless Magic As Cardinals Albert Pujols Soars To 700”) and how a piece on Pujols’s historic home run came together; how to approach the endless cycle of baseball writing; the challenge of covering a team that is having a bad year and more. Randall discusses her piece (“Alone At The Edge Of The World”) and how it came to be; writing about Susie Goodall, the lone female contestant in a round-the-world sailing competition known as the 2018 Golden Globe Race; how to recreate scenes of someone lashed by ocean, rain, and wind; the challenge of freelance writing as a career; Randall’s upcoming book and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more. The book is available online and where books are sold.

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