The Great American Sports Page A Century Of Classic Columns From Ring Lardner To Sally Jenkins

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The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins

John Schulian

Author : John Schulian
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781598536133

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A first-of-its-kind celebration of the newspaper scribes who made sportswriting a glorious popular art, and immortalized America's greatest games and athletes 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.

Going 15 Rounds With Jerry Izenberg

Ed Odeven

Author : Ed Odeven
Publisher : Ed Odeven
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781393599937

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Going 15 Rounds With Jerry Izenberg by Ed Odeven Pdf

Jerry Izenberg’s career in newspapers began eight decades ago as a college student. And since 1962, he has penned sports columns for The Star-Ledger, a New Jersey newspaper. Memories from throughout his career, insights on mentors and general impressions of historic figures (Muhammad Ali, Grambling University football coach Eddie Robinson, thoroughbred legend Secretariat and columnists Red Smith and Jim Murray, among others) provide an overview of what he's observed and written about in his distinguished career, which included 53 consecutive Super Bowls through 2019. Izenberg’s upbringing in New Jersey ignited a love of baseball at a young age, and tales from the ballpark are presented, from the 1930s in Newark to Fidel Castro in Havana in the late 1950s to decades later. Izenberg connected with people and told meaningful stories about their lives, including Nelson Mandela's after meeting him and watching Olympic boxing with him in the stands in Barcelona in 1992. It's a topic briefly explored in the book. Above all, Going 15 Rounds With Jerry Izenberg illuminates the breadth and depth of his extraordinary career and gives a wide range of prominent sports media members an opportunity to also reflect on his career and legacy.

The Norton Book of Sports

George Plimpton

Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0393030407

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A collection of short stories and other writings centering around sports for each season.

The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz

W. C. Heinz

Author : W. C. Heinz
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781598534191

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The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz by W. C. Heinz Pdf

Bill Littlefield (NPR's Only a Game) presents the second installment in the Library of America series devoted to classic American sportswriters, a defintive collector’s edition of the pathbreaking writer who invented the long-form sports story. Like his friend and admirer Red Smith, W. C. Heinz (1915–2008) was one of the most distinctive and influential sportswriters of the last century. Though he began his career as a newspaper reporter, Heinz soon moved beyond the confines of the daily column, turning freelance and becoming the first sportwriter to make his living writing for magazines. In doing so he effectively invented the long-form sports story, perfecting a style that paved the way for the New Journalism of the 1960s. His profiles of the top athletes of his day still feel remarkably current, written with a freshness of perception, a gift for characterization, and a finely tuned ear for dialogue. Jimmy Breslin named Heinz’s “Brownsville Bum”—a brief life of Al “Bummy” Davis, Brooklyn street tough and onetime welterweight champion of the world—“the greatest magazine sports story I’ve ever read, bar none.” His spare and powerful 1949 column, “Death of a Race Horse,” has been called a literary classic, a work of clarity and precision comparable to Hemingway at his best. Now, for this essential writer’s centennial, Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR’s Only A Game, presents the essential Heinz: thirty-eight columns, profiles, and memoirs from the author’s personal archive, including eighteen pieces never collected during his lifetime. Though Heinz’s great passion was boxing—the golden era of Rocky Graziano, Floyd Patterson, and Sugar Ray Robinson—his interests extended to the wide world of sports, with indelible profiles of baseball players (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio), jockeys (George Woolf, Eddie Arcaro), hockey players, football coaches, scouts and trainers and rodeo riders.

The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner

Author : Ring Lardner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780803299405

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The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner by Ring Lardner Pdf

Ring Lardner's influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country's best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, when his voice was all but inescapable in American newspapers and magazines. Lardner's trenchant, observant, sly, and cynical writing style, along with a deep understanding of human foibles, made his articles wonderfully readable and his words resonate to this day. Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner's journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate, which appeared in 150 newspapers and reached eight million readers. In these columns Lardner not only covered the great sporting events of the era--from Jack Dempsey's fights to the World Series and even an America's Cup--he also wrote about politics, war, and Prohibition, as well as parodies, poems, and penetrating observations on American life. The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner reintroduces this journalistic giant and his work and shows Lardner to be the rarest of writers: a spot-on chronicler of his time and place who remains contemporary to subsequent generations.

The Cost of These Dreams

Wright Thompson

Author : Wright Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780525505662

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The instant New York Times bestseller! From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports. "Wright Thompson's stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail that I sometimes thinks he's working my side of the street - the world of fiction." - John Grisham There is only one Wright Thompson. He is, as they say, famous if you know who he is: his work includes the most read articles in the history of ESPN (and it's not even close) and has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series ten times, and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers (see back of book). But to say his pieces are about sports, while true as far as it goes, is like saying Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is a book about a cattle drive. Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Urban Meyer, he strips the away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full. There are fascinating common denominators: it may not be the case that every single great performer or coach had a complex relationship with his father, but it can sure seem that way. And there is much marvelous local knowledge: about specific sports, and times and places, and people. Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving, The Cost of These Dreams is an ode to the reporter's art, and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts.

How Life Imitates Sports

Ira Berkow

Author : Ira Berkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781683583806

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How Life Imitates Sports by Ira Berkow Pdf

Memorable Stories From a Half Century of Sports Journalism For the last half century, Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Ira Berkow has been at the center of some of the most memorable moments in sports history. From the World Series, NBA Finals, and Super Bowl, to Heavyweight Title Fights, the Olympics, and The Masters, he has seen and covered them all. After fifty years covering sports, with more than twenty-five as a journalist for the New York Times, How Life Imitates Sports shares how these events—and their participants—have significantly shaped how we as a nation have come to understand and perceive our culture (and even our politics). They are a historical record of one significant sphere of our life and times: sports. From Muhammad Ali to Mike Tyson, Michael Jordan to LeBron James, Jackie Robinson to Derek Jeter, Billie Jean King to Tonya Harding, O. J. Simpson to Tiger Woods and beyond, this collection is a historical record of our times over this past half century, in terms of society, race and gender, politics, legal issues, and the fabric of our sports passions and human condition, ranging from pathos to humor, from introspection to perception. Including additional commentary on when these events first occurred and how they have impacted us today, Berkow shares the knowledge of someone who sat ringside, in the press box, and on the sidelines for some of the most notable moments in our history. So whether you’re a fan of baseball and basketball, or tennis and soccer, How Life Imitates Sports shows you our history from someone who witnessed it first-hand; a worthy collection for anyone who appreciates the highest quality sports journalism.

No Place I Would Rather Be

Joe Bonomo

Author : Joe Bonomo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496234780

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No Place I Would Rather Be by Joe Bonomo Pdf

No Place I Would Rather Be is a look at Roger Angell's writing over the decades, including his early short stories, pieces for the New Yorker, and later autobiographical essays, and at the common threads that run through it.

Dead Solid Perfect

Dan Jenkins

Author : Dan Jenkins
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307574527

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Dead Solid Perfect by Dan Jenkins Pdf

The legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author. Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel about life on the PGA Tour. To some, Kenny Lee Puckett, the star of Jenkins's ribald saga, is a more important figure in the history of golf than Bobby Jones himself.

The Grim Reaper

Stu Grimson

Author : Stu Grimson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780735237254

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A powerful memoir from an NHL heavyweight champion who moved from the dressing room to the courtroom. NHL tough guys all tell the same story. They all grew up dreaming of skating in the big league as stars. Then one day, a coach tells them the only way to make it is to drop the gloves. And every guy says the same thing: I'll do whatever it takes to play in the NHL. Not Stu Grimson, though. When he was offered a contract to patrol the ice for the Calgary Flames, he said no thanks, and went to university instead. And that's the way Grimson has approached his career and his life: on his own terms. He stared down the toughest players on the planet for seventeen years, while working on his first university degree. He retired on his own terms, and went on to practice law, including a stint as in-house counsel for the NHLPA. This has put him in a unique position when it comes to commenting on the game. He's seen it from the trenches, and he's seen it from the courtroom. This puts him in the eye of the storm surrounding fighting and concussions. And he handles that the way he does everything: on his own terms. When Don Cherry called him out on televison, it was the seemingly indominable Cherry who backed down. Hockey fans will be fascinated by his data-driven defence of fighting. But in the end, this is not a book about fighting and locker-room stories. It's the story of a young man who ultimately took on the toughest role in pro sports and came out the other side. Where many others have not.

I Was Right On Time

David Conrads,Buck O'neil

Author : David Conrads,Buck O'neil
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1439127468

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I Was Right On Time by David Conrads,Buck O'neil Pdf

From Babe Ruth to Bo Jackson, from Cool Papa Bell to Lou Brock, Buck O'Neil has seen it all. As a first baseman and then manager of the legendary Kansas City Monarchs, O'Neil witnessed the heyday of the Negro leagues and their ultimate demise. In I Was Right on Time, he charmingly recalls his days as a ballplayer and as an African-American in a racially divided country. Whether he's telling of his barnstorming days with the likes of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson or the day in 1962 when he became the first African-American coach in the major leagues, O'Neil takes us on a trip not only through baseball's past but through America's as well.

The Years with Ross

James Thurber

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063075788

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The Years with Ross by James Thurber Pdf

From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross “Extremely entertaining. . . . life at The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practical jokes, of feuds and foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing their games around a man who, for all his brusqueness, loved them, took care of them, pampered and scolded them like an irascible mother hen.” —New York Times With a foreword by Adam Gopnik and illustrations by James Thurber At the helm of America’s most influential literary magazine from 1925 to 1951, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and Dorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber, whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and a glorious era as well. "If you get Ross down on paper," warned Wolcott Gibbs to Thurber," nobody will ever believe it." But readers of this unforgettable memoir will find that they do. Offering a peek into the lives of two American literary giants and the New York literary scene at its heyday, The Years with Ross is a true classic, and a testament to the enduring influence of their genius.

Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers

Lee Server

Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438109121

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Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers by Lee Server Pdf

Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.

The Primer of Humor Research

Victor Raskin

Author : Victor Raskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9783110198492

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The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.

Of Consequence

Jody Zorgdrager

Author : Jody Zorgdrager
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0979393493

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Of Consequence by Jody Zorgdrager Pdf

"Zorgdrager's eye consistently transforms ordinary details into matters of consequence, and her voice - intimate, colloquial, genuine - articulates the drama in and beyond small moments. Julia Kasdorf"--Page 4 of cover

The Great American Sports Page A Century Of Classic Columns From Ring Lardner To Sally Jenkins

The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins by John Schulian Pdf

Going 15 Rounds With Jerry Izenberg by Ed Odeven Pdf

The Norton Book of Sports by George Plimpton Pdf

The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz by W. C. Heinz Pdf

The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner by Ring Lardner Pdf

The Cost of These Dreams by Wright Thompson Pdf

How Life Imitates Sports by Ira Berkow Pdf

No Place I Would Rather Be by Joe Bonomo Pdf

Dead Solid Perfect by Dan Jenkins Pdf

The Grim Reaper by Stu Grimson Pdf

I Was Right On Time by David Conrads,Buck O'neil Pdf

The Years with Ross by James Thurber Pdf

Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers by Lee Server Pdf

The Primer of Humor Research by Victor Raskin Pdf

Of Consequence by Jody Zorgdrager Pdf

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