Unless you’ve worked for an area media outlet, you probably haven’t heard of the Metropolitan Media Softball League, which has pitted teams from local and national outlets against one another going back to 1991. Now that corner of the media universe is captured in a new book, Jim Barnett’s Playing Games at CNN, a memoir of his time coaching the network’s team from 1998 to 2007. His write-ups capture the fun, as well as the slog, of being in a softball league. Players left the field to go work in their softball uniforms; star shortstop John King reported by cell phone as he played. The people who show up for softball games in Kensington aren’t typically the ones who appear in Playbook.

Source: Washington Post October 22, 2024 11:10 UTC