Coral Gables, Fla. (VIP-WIRE).
They know me for having been director of the School of Journalism at the Central University of Venezuela, of which I am very proud. Journalism is what I love the most as a profession
I am writing to you because you constituted yourself as a valuable conglomerate, clamoring for the book of John to finally be published. And I think they won. It is already on sale in “Amazon”.
More, by losing the fight against you, Vené was the winner. His work is not left lying in some corner with a cobweb, black with dirt or unpleasant odours.
The book of Juan (532 pages) is not an organized biography, but the narration of the experiences in so much time of life and profession.
His interesting trip to the Sierra Maestra counts the same as the incidents of players and managers who tried to attack him, such as Baudilio Díaz, Martín Dihigo and Tom LaSorda. He recounts how as a child he was more than poor, “extremely poor”, he writes, due to his father’s illness that prevented him from working.
As for journalism, I think that this work can be useful to those who study the profession, especially those who aspire to write about sports.
In Chapter XX, he says about Henry Chadwick…: “He was never a diamond star. On a few occasions he tried to play baseball. He was never a professional athlete in any sport, nor did he chew tobacco or spit in a dugout. Also, he was not American, but British.
But Chadwick spearheaded the most exciting and exciting of Northland revolutions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, turning a rural, social entertainment into America’s most beloved and bombastic sporting spectacle. ‘The national sport’.
“Henry Chadwick was a prominent figure in baseball from his teens until the day he died.
For his cooperation in improving the Rules, for inventing the method of recording plays and bringing them to the box-score, and also for his prolific activity as a reporter, columnist and historian, Chadwick was dubbed ‘The Father of Baseball’.
Juan relates how Chadwick died in April 1908, while attending the opening game of the season, at the Polo Grounds, during a cold afternoon, even though he suffered from a high fever.
There is a lot about journalism and fun in this book, written for the love of people, as Juan says. I hope you enjoy it.
I wish you the best of the best… I love you very much… Héctor.
Thanks to life that has given me so much, even a reader like you.
ATTENTION.- By Google, the file of “Juan Vené in the Ball”, in “sport unites us again”.
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