How to Get Paid to Write Baseball Trivia

If you're a true baseball fan and enjoy learning and memorizing trivia about the game, you may wish to share that knowledge. Because baseball is a statistic-driven sport, it's easy to search online for rare stats and build up your knowledge about the game. Getting paid for sharing this knowledge is an ideal situation, and even if media companies aren't knocking down your door to hire you as their resident trivia guru, there are ways to get paid to write baseball trivia.

Instructions

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      Learn as much wide-ranging trivia as possible, and focus on statistical and human-interest stats. If you live in an area that has major league or minor league baseball, gather a wealth of trivia about the team.

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      Contact your local newspaper either by phone or in writing to pitch the idea of writing a regular baseball trivia section for the paper. Explain that you would like to receive a flat rate of pay for your work and that you'll contribute, for example, three trivia questions for each edition. The following edition of the paper can include the answers to the previous questions as well as a set of new questions. Explain that this feature could help the newspaper increase its readership, because many baseball fans may start reading the publication for the trivia section.

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      Contact your local sports radio station and pitch a similar idea. You could contribute one or two baseball trivia questions each week during a trivia segment on the sports talk morning show. Perhaps a local business could sponsor the trivia segment, which would increase your likelihood of getting paid. If you are a confident speaker, you could ask to call into the show at a given time to share your trivia. If you'd rather stay in the background, the hosts could read your questions and answers.

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      Contact the radio station that broadcasts your local professional baseball team's games and share your idea with them. During a slow point in their broadcast, they could read one of your trivia questions about the local team.

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      Contact a small, local publishing house and propose the idea of a baseball trivia book to them. Because there are many such books on the market, your proposal would need a new angle. You could focus on trivia surrounding the local team or trivia about pro players from your area. First-time authors seldom receive book deal advances, but if your proposal is approved, you will be able to negotiate a payment for your work.