{"id":5682,"date":"2014-07-05T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2014-07-07T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:38:13","slug":"jim-brosnan-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/05\/jim-brosnan-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Brosnan Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/04\/sports\/baseball\/jim-brosnan-a-pitcher-with-the-cardinals-and-reds-brought-new-perspective-to-baseball-writing-dies-at-84.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">By\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\" title=\"More Articles by BRUCE WEBER\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/w\/bruce_weber\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"BRUCE WEBER\" data-twitter-handle=\"nytbruceweber\">BRUCE WEBER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2014\/07\/04\/sports\/04brosnan\/04brosnan-master675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2014\/07\/04\/sports\/04brosnan\/04brosnan-superJumbo.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"Jim Brosnan in Chicago in 1964. &amp;ldquo;The Long Season,&amp;rdquo; his groundbreaking 1960 book, began as a diary.\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Associated Press\" \/><span class=\"caption-text\">Jim Brosnan in Chicago in 1964. \u201cThe Long Season,\u201d his groundbreaking 1960 book, began as a diary.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"credit\" style=\"color: #999999;\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Credit\u00a0<\/span>Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as a relief pitcher but gained greater fame and consequence in the game by writing about it, died on June 29 in Park Ridge, Ill. He was 84.In 1959, Brosnan, who played nine years in the major leagues, kept a diary of his experience as a pitcher, first with the St. Louis Cardinals and later, after a trade, with the Cincinnati Reds. Published the next year as \u201cThe Long Season,\u201d it was a new kind of sportswriting \u2014 candid, shrewd and highly literate, more interested in presenting the day-to-day lives and the actual personalities of the men who played the game than in maintaining the fiction of ballplayers as all-American heroes and role models.<\/p>\n<p>Written with a slightly jaundiced eye \u2014 but only slightly \u2014 the book is often given credit for changing the nature of baseball writing, anticipating the literary reporting of Roger Angell, Roger Kahn and others; setting the stage for \u201cVeeck \u2014 as in Wreck,\u201d the vibrant memoir of Bill Veeck, the maverick owner of several teams; and predating by a decade Jim Bouton\u2019s more celebrated, more rambunctious (and more salacious) pitcher\u2019s diary, \u201cBall Four.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/04\/sports\/baseball\/jim-brosnan-a-pitcher-with-the-cardinals-and-reds-brought-new-perspective-to-baseball-writing-dies-at-84.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full obit at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 By\u00a0BRUCE WEBER Jim Brosnan in Chicago in 1964. \u201cThe Long Season,\u201d his groundbreaking 1960 book, began as a diary.\u00a0Credit\u00a0Associated Press Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as a relief pitcher but gained greater fame and consequence in the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}