Lessons

Great little story from our pal Jon Gold, via his Facebook:

Had one of the most poignant experiences of my life last night.

Riding home from the Clippers game on the Metro, I pulled out one of my favorite book – Best American Sportswriting of 2002 by Glenn Stout – led off by one of my favorite features, Bill Plaschke's Her Blue Haven.

A young black dude asked me what I was reading. I told him, just a book about sportswriting, the best from 2002.

He says wow.

I told him I was a sportswriter.

He says wow.

I say, "What, you want to be a writer?"

He says yes and asks me how I got started.

I looked at the book, looked at him, looked at the book and handed it to him.

"This is how. Read this. Email me what y…