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sports writing giants http://www.wbez.org/blogs/cheryl-raye-
stout/2012-09/lessons-learned-sports-writing-giants-102394
<p><p>A few decades ago when a young reporter entered into the
world of sports, it wasn&#39;t the players or the coaches that
were the most intimidating: it was the veteran sports writers.
This is meant not as a knock; rather, I mean it with total
respect. My own memories of those days returned after another
great sports writer passed away last week: 85-year-old Joe
Mooshil. He wrote for the Associated Press for over 40 years and
covered every sport in town.</p><p><img alt="" class="image-
original_image" src="http://www.wbez.org/system/files/styles/ori
ginal_image/llo/insert-images/Joe%20Mooshil.jpg" style="width:
300px; height: 224px; float: left;" title="Sportswriter Joe
Mooshil, left, in 1964 with L.A. Dodgers Sandy Koufax and Walt
Alston. (AP/file)" />Joe was one of s