The Great American Sports Page
A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins: A Library of America Special Publication
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Spanning nearly a century, The Great American Sports Page presents essential columns from more than three dozen masters of the press-box craft. These unforgettable dispatches from World Series, Super Bowls, and title bouts for the ages were written on deadline with passion, spontaneity, humor, and a gift for the memorable phrase. Read avidly day in and day out by a sports-mad public, these columnists became journalistic celebrities in their home cities, their coverage trusted and savored, their opinions hotly debated. Some even helped change the games they wrote about. Gathered here in a groundbreaking anthology, their writings capture some of sport's most enduring moments and many of its all-time greats: Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan among them. But the best American sportswriters also found ways to write powerfully about lesser-known athletes and to convey, often with heartbreaking honesty and insight, the less glamorous and more tragic facets of the games we love. In its survey of the finest American sportswriting from Ring Lardner to Thomas Boswell, from Red Smith and Jimmy Cannon to Bob Ryan and Michael Wilbon, The Great American Sports Page takes the measure of the human richness, complexity, and competitive spirit of sports and the athletes who continue to fascinate and inspire us.
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- ISBN: 9781598536133
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- ISBN: 9781598536133
- File size: 1227 KB
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- English
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April 1, 2019
Among the best sports columnists of his own generation before lighting out for Hollywood to create Xena: Woman Warrior and write for the likes of Jag and Miami Vice, Schulian culls 98 gems from 46 of the most stellar American sportswriters of the past century. The more famous include Shirley Povich, Red Smith, Jim Murray, Thomas Boswell, Dick Young, Tony Kornheiser, Mike Lupica, Michael Wilbon, and Sally Jenkins. Young chronicles, in a nutshell, the cascade of cynical events that sent Brooklyn's beloved Dodgers to L.A., and Kornheiser reminds us he was a great writer before he was an ESPN talking head with a fine New York Times profile of Reggie Jackson. There's also W. O. McGeehan's bold, prophetic 1926 column on American swimmer Gertrude Ederle on the eve of her successful swim across the English Channel, the first ever by a female. And Emmett Watson, far off in the Pacific Northwest, writes a moving, delicate portrait of a young boxer forced to retire to save his own life. Classic columns, indeed.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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