Podcast appearances and mentions of Dick Young

This Sunday at First Universalist, we invite you to a special service, “Awakening Presence: A Journey From Numbness to Engagement,” as we explore the transformative power of reconnecting with our emotions and each other. Dive deep into the essence of presence, overcoming the barriers of emotional numbness that hinder our personal growth and communal vitality. Engage in a meaningful exploration of how mindfulness and empathy can not only enrich our personal journeys but also empower our collective commitment to justice and compassion. As we continue our stewardship campaign, remember that your support breathes life into the heart of our community, helping to revive the emotional nerve endings of our congregation. Join us in fostering a vibrant, engaged, and empathetic community, ready to embrace the full spectrum of life's experiences together. Your presence and contribution are the keys to unlocking a more present, connected, and lively congregation.   Welcome and Call to Worship- Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout (:24) Story for All Ages- Adaptation of a story by Leo Tolstoy- Em Herman-Johnson and the congregation (4:15) Singing Together- Come and Go With Me and What Wondrous Love is This?- Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout (16:35) Community Prayers- Katherine Harrell (23:00) Invitation to Give and Receive- Rev. Ashley Harness and David Leppik (30:37) Offertory- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free by Nina Simone- Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout (36:18) Greeting One Another- Em Herman-Johnson (38:38) Reading- Go to the Limits of Your Longing by Rainer Maria Rilke (40:48) Message- Unshackling the Chains of Emotional Numbness- Rev. Ashley Harness and Dick Young (42:41) Benediction- words by David Gate in memory of Nex Benedict (57:45) Closing Song- Where You Go, I will Go, Beloved by Shoshana Jedwab

On breaking barriers and becoming the Daily News' first woman sports columnist; on the different sides of Joe Namath; of how Dick Young lived up to his first name; on the 95-year-old strongman who needed a diaper.

On writing his 25th—and last—book; on his early job answering Mickey Mantle's fan mail; on Reggie Jackson and Joe DiMaggio and Sparky Lyle and Dick Young and Satchel Paige's lost uniform.

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4-9-2022 Passed Ball Show. John opens up this program by expressing his shock over the tragic death of Pittsburgh Steelers and Former Ohio State Quarterback Dwayne Haskins. He then blasts CBS Sports and their fantasy baseball “experts” over his most recent fantasy baseball draft. He wonders how an outfield of Juan Soto, Mike Trout, and Kyle Schwarber ranks 10th out of 10 teams and what particularly is wrong with choices of Jose Abreu (6th round), Javier Baez (9th), Corey Seager (4), Kris Bryant (5), and Joey Votto (8)… all when the team featured keepers Shohei Ohtani (10) and Wander Franco (12). John will take that instead of Guru suggestions of Brandon Belt and Ke'Bryan Hayes. John then spends some time talking about the 1962 National League MVP vote, one that ultimately went to Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills. John talks a little about Wins Above Replacement, something nobody in 1962 knew anything about, and why Willie Mays would have won the award unanimously had the vote been done today. John then makes his case for the late Tommy Davis before explaining why Frank Robinson really should have won the award. John then talks about Burt Shotton's connection to Branch Rickey and their ties to the St. Louis Cardinals. John then talks about longtime sportswriter Dick Young's impact on the sports beat and media

Enlisted in the US Army November 4, 1968 Basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina Arrived in South Vietnam in September of 1969 Came home in September of 1970. He was assigned to (his units) *2nd Field Force 7th Battalion 9th Artillery- Tay Ninh Province *7th Battalion 8th Artillery- Bien Hoa Was discharged from the Army on November 3, 1971 Worked at AMF in Shelby from 1971 to 1988 Worked at Broscho a Division of Jay Industries in Mansfield from 1988 and retired in April of 2019

9-5-2020 Passed Ball Show. John spends this show talking about the great career of the legendary Tom Seaver, who passed away this past week. Seaver will always be synonymous with the New York Mets, as his nickname describes. John tells about how the Braves did not do anything wrong by signing him after he was taken with the 20th overall pick of the June 1966 MLB draft. The Mets had a chance to take him at 18, instead going with Dalllas, TX outfielder James Taylor, not to be confused with the singer. The Mets rode their gift (by winning a lottery of being among the three teams willing to match the Braves offer) to a World Series champion and another National League pennant before making the decision to trade him in 1977. Seaver had demanded to be traded, likely because of a story published by New York Daily News columnist Dick Young talking about Seaver’s wife Nancy. The Mets were later given another gift with the Reds, the team Seaver was traded to, falling on some hard times and who traded Seaver back to the Mets for the 1983 season. This should have been the signal for Seaver to finish his career with the Mets. But the Mets screwed it up. First, by leaving him unprotected in the free agent compensation draft to be selected by the Chicago White Sox because they lost Dennis Lamp to the Toronto Blue Jays. Second, by not opting out to signing type- A free agents that offseason. They did not sign a type- A free agent anyways, and they could have kept themselves from having to protect any players. Seaver winning his 300th game at Yankee Stadium not wearing a Mets Jersey was a travesty, one that could have been averted. Perhaps he could have been in the Mets dugout for the final out of the 1986 World Series and not wearing a Boston Red Sox uniform. He also asks why the Atlanta Braves were not allowed to be part of the Seaver lottery in 1966. Finally, John breaks down his top ten starting pitchers of all time and makes a case for why Seaver could be on the list.

with Pastor Galen and Dick Young

with Pastor Galen and Dick Young

Veteran sports columnist Gene Collier joins Tim to talk about the ubiquitous locker room interview and how it changed the way the world learns about and sees sports. Gene tells stories of his own memorable experiences as a journalist interviewing athletes and coaches before and after some of the biggest events of their lives. In this episode we talk about the first locker room interview pioneer, and the time when female journalists gained access to team locker rooms. https://traffic.libsyn.com/shapingopinion/Locker_Room_Full_auphonic.mp3 Dick Young started as a statistician in the sports department at the New York Daily News in 1943. Not long after that, he worked his way up to become the beat reporter for the then Brooklyn Dodgers, one of the most prized beats in all of Major League Baseball and sports reporting. It was in that role that Dick did something that would change the way the media would cover sports. He went into the team locker room before and after games to get interviews with players and coaches. Before that, a lot of sports coverage didn't even include quotes from the players and coaches. The sports reporters would cover the games according primarily only to what they saw and how they analyzed the game. Dick Young is the one who took the fans into the locker room. After he did so, it would be nearly impossible to enter a locker room before or after any major sporting event and not see writers, photographers, and TV and radio reporters, crowded in locker rooms or around the locker of the player who just won…or lost… the game for his team. For years, the teams and sports leagues would not allow female reporters in the locker rooms, giving their male counterparts and edge in getting highly prized interviews and scoops. Then in 1977, during the baseball World Series, the league refused to allow Melissa Ludtke into the locker rooms of both teams – the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. She was working for Sports Illustrated at that time. After that, both Ludtke and the owner of Sports Illustrated, Time, Inc., filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball. A year later, a federal judge ruled against Major League Baseball's ban against allowing female reporters in locker rooms. That opened the doors to the locker room to female journalists. Since then, sports have changed, rules have changed, but one thing that hasn't is the omnipresence of reporters in locker rooms. Links Gene Collier Some of Gene's Columns, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Daily News Sports Writers - especially Dick Young - Forever Changed How Newspapers Covered new York Teams, NY Daily News Dick Young's America - The Reactionary Who Changed Sportswriting, Deadspin  The Naked Truth About Locker Room Interviews, Columbia Journalism Review About this Episode's Guest Gene Collier Gene Collier has written sports, politics, and media criticism in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia for more than 30 years and has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, losing spectacularly both times. He has a journalism degree from Penn State. Gene has been a popular guest on area radio stations including the WDVE Radio's Morning Show, delivering his comical views on Pittsburgh and its sports teams. Gene's comedy lampoons family life, media culture, music, sports, and politics. His writing popularity has led into a secondary career as a stand-up comic and corporate speaker. @GeneCollier

Veteran sports columnist Gene Collier joins Tim to talk about the ubiquitous locker room interview and how it changed the way the world learns about and sees sports. Gene tells stories of his own memorable experiences as a journalist interviewing athletes and coaches before and after some of the biggest events of their lives. In this episode we talk about the first locker room interview pioneer, and the time when female journalists gained access to team locker rooms. https://traffic.libsyn.com/shapingopinion/Locker_Room_Full_auphonic.mp3 Dick Young started as a statistician in the sports department at the New York Daily News in 1943. Not long after that, he worked his way up to become the beat reporter for the then Brooklyn Dodgers, one of the most prized beats in all of Major League Baseball and sports reporting. It was in that role that Dick did something that would change the way the media would cover sports. He went into the team locker room before and after games to get interviews with players and coaches. Before that, a lot of sports coverage didn’t even include quotes from the players and coaches. The sports reporters would cover the games according primarily only to what they saw and how they analyzed the game. Dick Young is the one who took the fans into the locker room. After he did so, it would be nearly impossible to enter a locker room before or after any major sporting event and not see writers, photographers, and TV and radio reporters, crowded in locker rooms or around the locker of the player who just won…or lost… the game for his team. For years, the teams and sports leagues would not allow female reporters in the locker rooms, giving their male counterparts and edge in getting highly prized interviews and scoops. Then in 1977, during the baseball World Series, the league refused to allow Melissa Ludtke into the locker rooms of both teams – the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. She was working for Sports Illustrated at that time. After that, both Ludtke and the owner of Sports Illustrated, Time, Inc., filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball. A year later, a federal judge ruled against Major League Baseball’s ban against allowing female reporters in locker rooms. That opened the doors to the locker room to female journalists. Since then, sports have changed, rules have changed, but one thing that hasn’t is the omnipresence of reporters in locker rooms. Links Gene Collier Some of Gene's Columns, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Daily News Sports Writers - especially Dick Young - Forever Changed How Newspapers Covered new York Teams, NY Daily News Dick Young's America - The Reactionary Who Changed Sportswriting, Deadspin  The Naked Truth About Locker Room Interviews, Columbia Journalism Review About this Episode's Guest Gene Collier Gene Collier has written sports, politics, and media criticism in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia for more than 30 years and has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, losing spectacularly both times. He has a journalism degree from Penn State. Gene has been a popular guest on area radio stations including the WDVE Radio’s Morning Show, delivering his comical views on Pittsburgh and its sports teams. Gene’s comedy lampoons family life, media culture, music, sports, and politics. His writing popularity has led into a secondary career as a stand-up comic and corporate speaker. @GeneCollier

Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis talk about how Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep won at Wimbledon. Sam Anderson also joins to discuss Russell Westbrook and the end of an era in Oklahoma City, and John Thorn helps assess Jim Bouton and Bouton’s classic book Ball Four. Wimbledon (01:26): On Novak Djokovic’s incredible win over Roger Federer, why fans don’t love Djokovic, the greatness of Simona Halep, and Serena Williams’ continuing quest for her 24th major. Westbrook and OKC (21:36): Why Oklahoma City fell in love with Russell Westbrook, and how we should think about the last decade for the Thunder. Ball Four (42:50): Jim Bouton’s book exposed the underbelly of baseball, but it’s about so much more than ballplayer carousing. Afterballs (55:38): Stefan on Dick Young and Jim Bouton, and Josh on the Cricket World Cup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis talk about how Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep won at Wimbledon. Sam Anderson also joins to discuss Russell Westbrook and the end of an era in Oklahoma City, and John Thorn helps assess Jim Bouton and Bouton’s classic book Ball Four. Wimbledon (01:26): On Novak Djokovic’s incredible win over Roger Federer, why fans don’t love Djokovic, the greatness of Simona Halep, and Serena Williams’ continuing quest for her 24th major. Westbrook and OKC (21:36): Why Oklahoma City fell in love with Russell Westbrook, and how we should think about the last decade for the Thunder. Ball Four (42:50): Jim Bouton’s book exposed the underbelly of baseball, but it’s about so much more than ballplayer carousing. Afterballs (55:38): Stefan on Dick Young and Jim Bouton, and Josh on the Cricket World Cup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  "The '60s were a time of conflict, progress, tragedy, triumph, and unforgettable events in the nation and its pastime.  One Nation Under Baseball connects the two in revealing and insightful fashion."  -Bob Costas One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport -- fairness, competition, and mythology -- came under scrutiny.  John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game: the Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale million-dollar holdout, the encroachment of television on newspaper coverage, the changing perception of ballplayers from mythic figures to overgrown boys, the arrival of the everyman Mets and their free-spirited fans, and the lawsuit brought against team owners by Curt Flood. Florio and Shapiro bring to life the seminal figures of the era -- including Bob Gibson, Marvin Miller, Tom Seaver, and Dick Young -- richly portraying their roles during a decade of flux and uncertainty. John Florio is a freelance writer and novelist.  He is the author of Sugar Pop Moon and Blind Moon Alley.  Ouisie Shapiro is an Emmy-winning writer and producer of sport documentaries.  Her writing credits include HBO's Nine Innings from Ground Zero and ESPN's Playing for the Mob.  Florio and Shapiro are the authors of One Punch from the Promised Land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and the Myth of the Heavyweight Title.  They are also contributors to the Atlantic and the New Yorker. On an April evening in 2017, John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro took us back to the 1960s in a fascinating Clubhouse conversation.  Listen in...  

Thom Loverro is a sports columnist, an author and most recently a podcaster. Thom uses his talents and experiences from years on radio to run his own podcast called Cigars & Curveballs. He’s hosted Cal Ripken, George Foreman, Joe Jacoby, Dusty Baker and most recently Max Scherzer. You can subscribe to Cigars & Curveball on ITunes or Google Play, or listen to the latest episode online at Washington Times. Andy and Thom discuss Thom’s early years growing up in Brooklyn four blocks from Ebbets Field. One of Thom’s earliest memories was leaving the stadium after a Dodgers game. He tells Andy “I grew up in a Brooklyn Dodgers house and then when they left a New York Mets house.” Andy and Thom discuss Thom’s early years growing up in Brooklyn four blocks from Ebbets Field. One of Thom’s earliest memories was leaving the stadium after a Dodgers game. He tells Andy “I grew up in a Brooklyn Dodgers house and then when they left a New York Mets house.” The ballpark and team were an integral part of the neighborhood. Thom Loverro tells Andy “Gil Hodges’ brother-in-law used to be my barber when I was a kid. He had a neighborhood barber shop because the players then lived in the neighborhood everybody else lived. They didn't make a ton of money like they do now. Then they would stay close to the neighbors.” Thom was eight when he watched the legendary field torn down. Sometime around 1965, Thom Loverro’s dad moved the family from Brooklyn to the Poconos, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. He remembers it as very culturally different than Brooklyn. In fact, he recalls his first year in school there – 7th grade – “they sent me to speech therapy class because they thought there was something wrong with the way I talked and then they realize it was just my Brooklyn accent”. At the end of the day, Thom really loved growing up in the small town. Thom started college at Miami, but he had to leave school under a cloud when he burnt down half of his fraternity house with a cigar on accident. He eventually wound up at a Jesuit School, the University of Scranton, a big difference over Miami. The University town was very isolated but it was what he needed to really straighten himself out and get focused on what he needed to do. Thom decided he wanted to be a sports writer since he was 10. He is from a newspaper family and would read the sports sections of the New York Daily News and the New York Daily Mirror every night. He would read Dick Young and Jimmy Cannon and others like them. He started taking his dream seriously when he got to University of Scranton. After college, Thom worked for a couple of newspapers in Pennsylvania and then eventually wound up at the Baltimore Sun. In 1984 he started there as a news editor and reporter. He oversaw a bureau out in Howard County, and then started reporting by covering the state for the paper in Annapolis. It wasn’t until 1992, when he started working for the Washington Times that he realized his dream to be a sports writer. Andy asks Thom if it is unusual going from news to sports writing, and Thom said to some extent. He tells Andy “you don't see it happen much anymore but it was great for me . . . it's a lot easier right in sports than it is news - the rules are different - the news is much more accountable.” He goes on to say that his news training came in handy to cover “not just sports but all the issues that deal with sports such as the baseball strike in 1994 and the steroid stuff in baseball.” At the Washington Times, Thom covered the Washington Redskins for one year in 1992 – Joe Gibbs’ last year, and then went on to cover the Baltimore Oriolesuntil 1995. Andy refers to Thom as a baseball expert and remembers listening to him on radio and people always wanting to talk to him about baseball. Thom Loverro and Andy talk about how Washington eventually got its own baseball team. They almost had the Orioles,

Subscribe to “The Den of Sin” on iTunes TS conducts an epic interview spanning over two days with Richard “Dick” Young, founder of Straight-to-Tape Records and “twin brother” of member of Tuscon psychedelic rock outfit Wight Lhite.  Pneumonia, sexy giraffes, and “herbal cigarettes” are discussed. Also some music things. Playlist: “Rock and Roll” Wight Lhite […]

Ladies and gentlemen, what a match we have for you tonight! The plucky Eve Young, daughter of legendary DIck Young, faces off against the unstoppable man-mountain Can Opener! Will this monster be knocked down at last, or will Eve become the latest in a long, long trail of debris in the Opener's path? I'm Biff Wilcox, and this is one match you gotta see to believe!Six Feats Under presents: WWWRPGMore WWWRPG play: The Journeyman's Cup TournamentndpdesignSupport us on Patreon!Check out video sessions on our YouTube and Wolfshirt's YouTube!Contact: sixfeatsunder@gmail.comTwitterTumblrSomethingAwful

Full disclosure: A month ago, I had never heard of Tomas Rios. Full disclosure #2: I invited him to appear on my podcast off the strength of one article -- a piece he wrote last month called "A Brief History of Bad Sports Writing". Full disclosure #3: I was very impressed with the result. In the article, Rios takes aim at the "hot take" brand of journalism that has, he says, infested the sports media landscape. He traces it back to its evolutionary roots, bringing the reader on a journey from Grantland Rice to Dick Young to various modern-day writers, whom Rios willfully calls out by name. Rios is my guest on Episode 9 of the Telling The Story podcast. We go deep into the discussion of modern sports journalism, and he holds back just as little in our podcast as he does in the article. But I also delve into another subject with the 29-year-old, whose work has also appeared on the Slate and Deadspin web sites, among others: He talk about life as a freelancer. READ MORE >> → The post PODCAST EPISODE #9: Tomas Rios, paid-lance sportswriter appeared first on Telling The Story.