The pecking. Always the pecking.
Hunched over his keyboard in the corner of the Providence Journal newsroom designated for the sports department, Bill Reynolds wrote hundreds of columns and a dozen books, pecking at the keys with just the pointer fingers on each hand. If he'd ever learned the "proper" way to type, he had no use for it.
Pretty much everyone in Rhode Island knew of Billy, who died last week at 78 years old. He was an institution in the state, a high school and then Brown University basketball legend who could also turn around copy like few others.