Article: Time for a little reverse bias. (misleading labor statistics) (Column)

It was about 2 in the morning and the television was on. Jimmy Breslin was telling Bob Costas that, for his money, the best sports stories could usually be found in the loser's locker room. His personal favorite was one about the fifth game of the 1956 World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers. Unlike every other reporter on the beat, Murray Kempton of the New York Post did not bang out a piece about Don Larsen, the rangy right-hander with a no-wind-up delivery who had just made history by pitching a perfect game. Kempton did a profile of Sal Maglie, who was not quite as perfect in defeat. Talk to Kempton about it today and he'll tell you be was the only reporter in ...

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