I acknowledge that I give the Boston sports media a lot of crap but there's something to be said for the ability to capture a moment and preserve it forever; not with a photograph but with words. To have your description of an event be the one that everyone knows, must be an intoxicating thing.
The most famous example around here would be John Updike's "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu". It's a classic. Everyone knows Updike's "lyric little bandbox of a ballpark" and the head-down trot around the bases.
When Updike died last winter he was working on a fiftieth-anniversary edition of the essay. The original text is easy enough to find online but the new printing (which comes out tomorrow) also includes two other pieces about Williams written by Updike.
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