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Thus was born Deadspin
2006-01-28 21:20
by Bob Timmermann

Will Leitch of Deadspin gets profiled in the New York Times.

But the story says Leitch was covering the Cardinals for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1996. Leitch is listed as being 30. So he would have been on the Cardinals beat when he was 20. 20-year olds don't get assigned the Cardinals beat for the Post-Dispatch.

Clarification - Will Leitch has said the Times writer goofed and he was the beat writer for University of Illinois sports at the time when he worked in St. Louis.

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2006-01-29 06:39:17
1.   williamfleitch
Excellent catch; it's an error in the story. I was covering the Illinois men's basketball and football teams for the Dispatch then, not the baseball teams.
2006-01-29 09:50:48
2.   Bob Timmermann
Rick Hummel would have been mad at you for taking his job.

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