What's the first thing you looked at in the Tigers preview mag?

All Maple Street Press magazines have a history section, but I felt like it would be an incomplete book without Ernie Harwell being honored. When Sparky passed away, I had to do some re-arranging of stuff but I knew he simply had to be included and Ian would be a great one to write it. So I’m glad to see it pay off.

Great topic.

but the first thing I’ll read would probably be WIll Rhymes’ story. I’m interested to see how he writes!

I’d be lying if I said I read anything but my two pieces first, but after I was finished I moved on to the piece about Jacob Turner’s mechanics.

I admit it, I read the two pieces I wrote before I read anything else. Then I read Matt Snyder’s Rick Porcello piece.

That may be from working for years with an editor who would really mess up my writing before it hit the newspaper.

Anyway the first piece I read was Lee’s Rudy York piece, because it arrived in my email box first ;)

As the editor, I couldn’t choose just one. I’m proud of so many of the writers.

But next I went to Matt’s stuff and the piece on Jacob Turner’s mechanics. And the article on Kid Rick by Matt Snyder.

but after that, I read the player profiles. because those were the only parts I hadn’t read til my eyes were bleeding ;)

but I haven’t seen mention of a single topic that I’m not keenly interested in reading.

But, I had read both of them before the magazine was printed. I had also gotten a sneak look at Lee’s article on Rudy York which I freakin’ loved.

Aside from those, I really enjoyed Matt’s piece on Rick Porcello. After that, i thumbed through the player profiles because I had those same ideas (but really just for Boesch) that were presented: the strikezone broken up into boxes and production broken down by various ways.

Had to read the Turner article first, fantastic stuff. I’ll get around to the rest after exams slow down a bit.