Baseball is an everyday sport, and an incredibly human one. Errors and judgement calls are a regular part of every game—sometimes infuriatingly, and it's the human element that gives baseball its life.
The same could be said about baseball journalism. When there were two newspapers in Tampa Bay, the majority of the work done by the two beat writers, Marc Topkin (Tampa Bay TImes) and Roger Mooney (Tampa Tribune), was to recap the game and provide daily notes from the manager.
They watched the same game, they uncovered the same facts, and heard the same quotes. Outside of small nuances, the daily baseball reports rarely varied except for in the special interest pieces.