Episode 41: Alex Coffey of the Philadelphia Inquirer
Plus, I meet my podcasting idol
Happy to welcome Alex Coffey to the podcast this week.
Alex joined me from her new home in Philadelphia, where she was hired as the Phillies beat writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer earlier this year. Alex has had a pretty interesting career arc — her father was a sports writer for many years for the New York Daily News, and one of her first jobs was working for the Baseball Hall of Fame — she actually lived in Cooperstown, N.Y., and everything. Alex is a student of baseball history who majored in Reconstruction-era history at The College of William & Mary in Virginia.
She also covered the WNBA and the Oakland A’s for The Athletic.
Alex and I talk about a story she wrote for the New York Times about former Brooklyn Dodger Gil Hodges, on the occasion of his posthumous election to the Baseball Hall of Fame this past winter.
In the monologue, I discuss the end of the lockout in Major League Baseball and what it means for reporters. Please download, subscribe, listen, enjoy and tell me what you think!
Also in the monologue, I talk about getting up close and personal with his podcasting idol, Marc Maron. Here's a pic of Maron and me — I was "quick and polite" — outside the Colonial Theatre in Laconia.
