I happened to be covering an A’s game against the Red Sox at the Oakland Coliseum one memorable day in the late 1980s. After all the writers came up from the clubhouse afterward, I couldn’t help but notice that Steve Fainaru, then the Sox beat writer for the Hartford Courant, was pounding out his story wearing the tattered remnants of what had been a button-up shirt.
Of course, after we had all finished, I asked Fainaru what had happened. It turned out that Steve — who much later in his career won the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for his Washington Post series on private security contractors in Iraq — had gotten in a heated argument in the Boston clubhouse with future Hall of Famer Jim Rice.