Rob Neyer: My idol and my curse

February 2, 2011

After 15 years at ESPN, Rob Neyer is moving on to SB Nation.

Neyer and I have exchanged occasional emails over the last few years, but I do not know him personally, so I can;t say if he’s being self-effacing when he makes note of his career change in a “oh, by the way” manner at the bottom of his last column. All I know is that, for better or worse, he’s changed the way I read. No longer do I take anything as gospel merely by the fact that it appears in print. People forget, people misremember, people outright fabricate. Editors are ignorant of the author’s subject topic, copyeditors are lazy, and publishers don’t have the money they used to to address such issues. This is the take-away from his 2008 book, Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else.

As Neyer puts it at the end of his finale, “Happy Trails.”

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