An Interview with Mike Vaccaro

“I’ve just finished writing a book on the 1912 World Series… On my most productive writing days – and I swear this is true – I would have this eerie sense that I was in a black-and-white world, wearing a fedora, chomping a cigar … and when it was time to end those sessions, and the color returned, and my fedora became a Brooklyn Dodgers cap, it was a terrible come-down…”

“I’m annoyed that TV hasn’t better utilized the sports reporters they’ve lured to TV. I’m glad that my friend T.J. Quinn, for instance, was able to parlay a great run at the Daily News into a gig at ESPN, but I fear his impact there, regardless of the high quality of his work, will never be as broad as the screamers who fill up that channel every day from 4 o’clock on – and those screamers, by and large, are newspaper people whose talents far exceed the ability to out-shout each other.”