The great American sports page a century of classic columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins /

"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,...

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Other Authors: Schulian, John, 1945- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2019]
Physical Description:
xxv, 396 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Sports.
American newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc.
Sports -- United States -- History.
Sports journalism -- United States.
Contents:
  • Foreword / by Charles P. Pierce
  • Introduction / by John Schulian
  • W.O. McGeehan (1879-1933): Gertrude Ederle vs. the Channel (1926) ; News of a champion(1927)
  • Damon Runyon (1880-1946): Stengel's Homer wints it for the Giants(1923) ; All horse players die broke (1944)
  • Grantland Rice (1880-1954): Senators win title, 4-3 (1924)
  • Ring Lardner (1885-1933): Mordecai Brown: the reporter's friend (1916) ; Kid's strategy goes amuck as Jake doesn't die (1919) ; The perils of being a football writer (1921)
  • Heywood Broun (1888-1939): This side of paradise? (1920) ; The orthodox champion (1922)
  • Frank Graham (1893-1965): A show they will never forget (1938) ; Ex-champion (1945)
  • Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969): The called shot heard round the world (1932) ; The Olympic army (1936)
  • Joe Palmer (1904-1952): Stymie-common folks (1949) ; Samuel Doyle Riddle (1951)
  • Shirley Povich (1905-1998): Iron Horse "breaks" as athletic greats meet in his honor (1939) ; Larsen pitches 1st perfect game in series history (1956)
  • Red Smith (1905-1982): A horse you had to like (1947) ; Next to godliness (1947) ; Miracle of Coogan's Bluff (1951)
  • Jimmy Cannon (1909-1973): DiMaggio (1948) ; You're Billy Graham (1955) ; Doc Kearns (1963)
  • Wendell Smith (1914-1972): It was a great day in Jersey (1946)
  • W.C. Heinz (1915-2008): Down memory lane with the Babe (1948) ; Death of a racehorse (1949)
  • Dick Young (1917-1987): Beloved enemy (1946) ; Obit on the Dodgers (1957) ; Hutch (1964)
  • Emmett Watson (1918-2001): Goal-line stand in France brings Freddy back (1946) ; End of the line for Leo (1953)
  • Blackie Sherrod (1919-2016): Old Buster in Ivyland (1960) ; Changing tastes (1978) ; Zero is hero (1980)
  • Jim Murray (1919-1998): As white as the Ku Klux Klan (1969) ; If you're expecting one-liners (1979) ; All-time greatest name (1980)
  • Sandy Grady (1927-2015): Cool world of Basketball's Wilt (1960) ; A visit to Managers' Terrace (1964) ; The mob hit .000 (1966)
  • Peter Finney (1927-2016): "Bounced right into my arms": Cannon planned to let it roll (1959) ; Just call me gorgeous (1960) ; It could have been worse (1977)
  • Jim Klobuchar (B. 1928): The dragon vs. a scrambling St. George (1966) ; Joe Namath slays the knights (1969)
  • Dave Anderson (1929-2018): The sound of 715 (1974)
  • Bud Collins (1929-2016): Evert smashing, wins battle of Wimbledon (1976) ; Boxing grieves loss of 5th Street Gym (1994)
  • Jerry Izenberg (B. 1930): The Promoter (1964) ; Courage is riding out a 1,000-pound tornado (1985) ; Just Color Doug's day beautiful (1988)
  • Larry Merchant (B. 1931): Ali Baby (1967) ; Poetry in motion (1968) ; Hustler outhustled (1973)
  • Wells Twombly (1935-1977): Gallery of goats (1972) ; Super hero (1973) ; There was only one Casey (1975)
  • Robert Lipsyte (B. 1938): Clay wins title in seventh-round upset as Liston is halted by shoulder injury (1964) ; The medal (1969)
  • Bill Nack (1941-2018): First a hush, then awe (1973)
  • Dave Kindred (B. 1941): Willie Pastrano (1980) ; Ben Crenshaw (1984) ; Walter Payton (1988)
  • Leigh Montville (B. 1943): The tube that won't let you up (1981) ; It ain't over till it's over (1986)
  • John Schulian (B. 1945): Pistol Pet: parting shot full of sorrow (1980) ; The proud warrior (1985)
  • Diane K. Shah (B. 1945): At 7-foot-2, is Abdul-Jabbar above it all? (1981) ; Oh, no! Not another boring interview with Steve Carlton (1983)
  • Bob Ryan (B. 1946): Celtics steal it: Bulls fall in 2 OTs, 135-131 (1986) ; Celtics crowning glory: Burd buries Rockets (1986)
  • Thomas Boswell (B. 1947): Something to shout about (1982) ; Nicklaus a master again (1986) ; The Rocket's descent (2007)
  • Tony Kornheiser (B. 1948): Jackson's lonely world (1978)
  • Rick Telander (B. 1948): Making their points (2001) ; Atkins a study in pride and pain (2007)
  • Richard Hoffer (B. 1949): Chacon lives with a dream and relives a nightmare (1982) ; Retton vaults past Szabo to win gold medal (1984)
  • David Israel (B. 1951): Joe Pepitone: what is he doing for the rest of his life? (1975) ; Butterfly...Tiger...Lion...Al McGuire retires a champ (1977)
  • Mike Downey (B. 1951): When one teardrop is torrent of hope (1994) ; He may be playing in Year 2131 (1995)
  • Jane Leavy (B. 1951): The man baseball forgot plays the hand he's dealt (1983)
  • Ralph Wiley (1952-2004): Why did Duran do it? (1980) ; The undertaker was buried (1981)
  • Mike Lupica (B. 1952): The day the music died in Boston (1978) ; Connors slams death's door shut (1987) ; Recalling Brother's bravest hour (2001)
  • Mark Kram, Jr. (B. 1956): "I want to kill him" (202)
  • Bill Plaschke (B. 1958): Her blue haven (2001)
  • Michael Wilbon (B. 1958): Entitled to everything he got (1992) ; Winning isn't color-coded (1994)
  • Sally Jenkins (B. 1960): Driving home an eternal philosophy of life (2001) ; Only medal for Bode is fool's gold (2006) ; George Huguely, Ben Roethlisberger, Lawrence Taylor: male athletes encouraged to do the wrong thing (2010)
  • Joe Posnanski (B. 1967): RIP Buck O'Neil (2014)
  • Sources and acknowledgments
  • Index.

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