Meandering Through the Minor Leagues: One announcer's thoughts from Myrtle Beach to Montana

by Garry Griffith

Overview

Running away from home with the circus is a prevalent theme in the American imagination. Griffith has not gone to that extreme but he has run away on more than one occasion with several minor league professional baseball teams. The title, Meandering Through the Minor Leagues, chronicles his minor league baseball broadcasting career that has taken him from Myrtle Beach to Maryland to Montana. Along the way he has written columns and articles that talk about people and subjects surrounding the game and not exclusively about actual baseball games. Pro minor league baseball announcing has provided Griffith with a platform for getting to know people from all walks of life and he introduces them to you. He truly 'meanders' from subjects on baseball to life guarding. Do you desire to meander for a while? Then meander with him through his book.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011921063
Publisher:	garry griffith
Publication date:	11/08/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

The lore of professional minor league baseball has been documented and dramatized in print and film. Here is a book that chronicles the minor league life from the inside. Garry Griffith has been involved as a professional baseball minor league broadcaster since 1989 having broadcast in the Southern; Carolina; South Atlantic; Pioneer; and Frontier Leagues. Griffith does not provide a day-to-day diary approach nor does he concentrate on actual baseball games. Instead, his work focuses on the myriad of people he has encountered in his years of broadcasting. Written with humor and personal reflection, Griffith uses baseball as a prism for viewing life. This book will be enjoyed by fans - of baseball and of life.

Griffith has published in newspaper (Myrtle Beach Herald); online journal (Francis Marion University Journal of Mass Communication); and magazines (Coastal Carolina Sports and Recreation and Big Sky Journal) He is an assistant professor in the Mass Communication department at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina where he teaches speech and introduction to sports broadcasting.

Besides being a broadcaster, writer, and teacher, he has been a minister and beach concessions' manager.