Gary Kicinski
In 1968, at the age of 11, I became a big baseball fan, as just about every Detroiter did, while the Tigers helped unite a racially torn city on its march to the World Championship. That summer I consumed every printed word I could find about baseball
In 1968, at the age of 11, I became a big baseball fan, as just about every Detroiter did, while the Tigers helped unite a racially torn city on its march to the World Championship. That summer I consumed every printed word I could find about baseball.
That鈥檚 when I first got the journalism itch. I went on to work for my high school and college newspapers and majored in journalism at the University of Michigan. After graduation I worked for Gannett newspapers in Vermont, Florida and Ohio before landing at USA TODAY in the Washington, D.C., area, taking a dream job at a publication focused strictly on baseball: Baseball Weekly. In 2000 I faced a tough decision 鈥 continue on at Baseball Weekly or move into the emerging digital world as sports editor of USATODAY.com.
I chose the latter, gaining the opportunity to cover Super Bowls and Olympics while learning how to reach audiences on a whole new platform. Now at Transport Topics, I am able to apply those four decades of print and digital skills as Managing Editor/Multiplatform, overseeing editors who bob seamlessly between both worlds, bringing cleanly edited, well-packaged trucking news to consumers of Transport Topics and TTNews.com.
鈥淭he windup鈥 and the pitch鈥 he swings鈥 a line drive! Base hit! Right field! The Tigers win it! Here comes Kaline to score! And it鈥檚 all over! Don Wert singles! The Tigers mob Don鈥 Kaline has scored鈥 the fans are streaming on the field鈥 and the Tigers have won their first pennant since 1945. Let鈥檚 listen to the bedlam, here at Tiger Stadium!鈥濃 Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell, Sept. 17, 1968.
