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.. 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.
I can't remember the very first time I met Billy, and I can't even say that I understood at the time how crucial his support was. Between he and Dave Bloss, who was the sports editor when I started at the paper, I got the kind of guidance and uplift that so many young journalists from marginalized communities need and don't receive nearly enough.
If you were ever to read my very early copy, it looked a lot like his — he often used one-sentence paragraphs that said so much in just a few words, and I mimicked it. I have my own writing voice now, but his influence remains.
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