No. 177: MURRAY VOSBOURGH / The play-by-play man had been a born talker, calling thousand of games. When I sat down with him he had to tell his story without saying a word.
With so little time left, he and his family gave me an hour of their time for their story. Delivering a worthy story was no small amount of pressure. Likewise finding the right tone.
AN item popped up on my Facebook Memories yesterday: a post flagging me for a story that I wrote ten years ago. Not a cover story. Not even a story that was mentioned on the cover, which happened to be dedicated to the Canadian team heading to the Olympics in Sochi. The story ran across two pages and, with a prominent illustration, at less than 900 terms, not even a third of the length of features in that issue—in magazine terms, a short.
Still, I…
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