Digital Media, Press Restrictions Changed Baseball Coverage

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The first time Tim Kurkjian met legendary Orioles manager Earl Weaver, he got cussed at.
It was 1980, and Kurkjian — whose decades-long career in sports journalism has included time at The Baltimore Sun, Sports Illustrated and now ESPN — was just starting as the No. 2 baseball writer for The Washington Star.
His colleague, Dan Shaughnessy, the now-renowned Boston Globe columnist, made the introduction.
“Dan said, ‘Earl, this is Tim Kurkjian,