Academic

Doug Glanville on Rookies and Veterans

By propertyprof

Mr. Glanville--formerly of my beloved Phillies--writes in toady's New York Times:

You enter the big leagues (usually) as a young, vibrant, wide-eyed rookie, inspired and inspiring and still able to talk about your career with the excitement of a 5-year-old. Then, at the speed of light, you?re a seasoned veteran, with loads of ?experience? by the ripe old age of 34, and it takes two whirlpool massages just to get ready for batting practice. ...

I understood that I was now entrenched on the other side of the bell curve. I was sliding downward into the ?long in the tooth? spiked pit. My competition?s relatively minimal major league experience had become more valuable, in a way, than my library of experience. Somehow I had missed the transition point in my career where my value to a team had intersected with the value of a new kid on the block.

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Young players don?t want feel dismissed just because they haven?t been around the block any more than veterans want to have their years of experience discarded. And after all, there are different types of contributions, to be made by young and old, that can get a team to the same place. It just depends on what you are looking for and how you want it done.

Read the whole article here.  Is this about law teaching, too?
Alfred Brophy

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on April 25, 2008 (boomark / email).