COOPERSTOWN, NY – Ten minutes.
How does one tell such a rich, fulfilling and groundbreaking story in 10 minutes?
That is what Clarie Smith is up against.
Good luck attempting to tell such a compelling story for 10 minutes.
Sometime after 4:30 p.m. today at Doubleday Field, Smith will be presented with the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, which honors a writer (or writers) for meritorious contributors to baseball writing. And the speech has a time limit.
“This is hard and one of the hardest things I have ever written,” Smith said Saturday morning in a press conference.