Following the former baseball player’s death this week, there was a lot of postmortem hand-wringing in media circles over whether it was fair to define his career over one misplayed ball – although it was the media that gave him that treatment in the first place.

On this week’s edition of Beat The Press, Emily Rooney was joined by Adam Reilly of WGBH News, Mike Nikitas of the University of New Hampshire, Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University, and Jon Keller of WBZ News.