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Journal #2: Jeff Passan

I chose to talk about Jeff Passan, because he is a fantastic baseball journalist. He stands out from other journalists because he consistently and accurately breaks pertinent baseball news. Passan is the prime example of someone who works hard to get to their dream job they were at today. Passan, 39, didn’t even start writing about baseball. Passan wrote about basketball at the University of Syracuse, where he graduated with a degree in journalism. He then covered basketball at Fresno State and proceeded to write books about football and baseball, while covering basketball. By doing that, Passan shows that he has incredible knowledge that is diversified enough to be knowledgeable to talk about three different sports. I follow him because Passan is someone who is reliable with their baseball knowledge and loves to cover all aspects of the game. Their writing is very well laid out and factual, but I mostly follow him on Twitter, where I can get short spurts of information quickly. I wish Passan could improve by writing more feature pieces of athletes that aren’t very well known, but have a great backstory. Us baseball fans always hear about the high profile athletes, but it would be nice to hear a couple of feel good stories now and then.  

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