“Democratic” media guides

January 15, 2014 · 2 comments

Used to be you actually had to be a member of the media to get one of these. Made it seem a bit special. Now anyone with a few bucks can purchase them.

The Orioles, in celebration of their 60th anniversary in Baltimore, have gone an additional step: You can view all of their media guides online. It’s certainly interesting to see the evolution of these publications.

https://i2.wp.com/baltimoresportsreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/1954-baltimore-orioles-media-guide.jpg?resize=298%2C244

https://i2.wp.com/www.albersheims.com/ItemImages/000003/3860a_lg.jpeg?resize=250%2C511

http://goose.ycp.edu/~ttaylor/images/oreos/media_guides/1974_media_guide.jpg

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http://goose.ycp.edu/~ttaylor/images/oreos/media_guides/2004_media_guide.jpg

I know the Detroit Tigers have a few of their more recent media guides available for online viewing. A random look at other teams via MLB.com doesn’t turn up any more examples of the ballclubs’ beneficence.

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1 koolkat_1960 January 17, 2014 at 4:49 pm

These are great. Note that by 1955, there was zero evidence in the Orioles media guide that they had once been the St. Louis Browns.
When I was a kid, we used to get old media guides from the sportswriters at the Providence Journal. Football mostly.

2 jlmulls2 January 19, 2014 at 5:00 pm

Yes – The old media guides and the old “green” and “red” AL/NL guides issued each year were the only sources of detailed information for fans — other than newspapers and Sporting News of course. They still are – it’s quicker to use them than to look up stuff online. Same goes for the pocket schedules.

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