After growing up in Omaha, Nebraska and skinning his knees on the concrete walkways of Rosenblatt Stadium, Eric has had college baseball in his veins for as long as he can remember. When the College World Series was going on each June, his parents would drop him and his friends off at the stadium in the morning and pick them up after the last game that night. Poor parenting? Sure. But it also fueled his fever for the sport that much more.
Eschewing the normal journalistic road to sports writing, Eric has been an advertising copywriter for years. He admits that creative background has added to his unconventional approach to sports writing and is a main contributor to his unique style.
Eric’s “addiction” to college baseball writing began back in the late 90s, when he became one of the original national writers for the sport. In the years that followed, he has covered college baseball for such media outlets as USA Today, CSTV, CBS Sportsline, CBS College Sports, College Baseball Insider and his current gig with College Baseball Today.
Living in Southern California with his wife Mandy, Eric sits in one of the hotbeds of college baseball. When he’s not covering a game or writing about the sport, he enjoys surfing, snow skiing, playing hockey and rough-housing with his black lab “T.O.” Eric was also 7th runner-up in “The Most Interesting Man In the World” competition held by Dos Equis in 2009.
Quick mea culpa first. Sorry that it took a few days to get this clip delivered to me and to have it edited down to a YouTubeable size and everything. But it’s worth the wait ‘coz I really like this back-and-forth I had with the Nebraska head coach. Mr. Anderson sat down with me smack-dab in the middle of Jackie Robinson Stadium during his team’s trip out to Los Angeles for the UCLA series last week.
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Fat Sam says:
Nice interview, and nice Husker motorcycle helmet. I bet that gets some comments out in La-La land.
Did I understand correctly that Coach Anderson said when he first arrived at Nebraska as an assistant there were only 23 high school baseball teams in the whole state? If so, wow.