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American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith: A Library of America Special Publication,New
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Spanning nearly fifty years and featuring hardtofind pieces, this anthology collects the most essential writings on American baseball, boxing, and more, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning sports journalistWalter Wellesley Red Smith was the most widely read sports writer of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the New York Herald Tribune and later for The New York Times traversed the world of sports with literary panache and wry humor. Ive always had the notion, Smith once said, that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again. Now, writer and editor (and inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball) Daniel Okrent presents the best of Smiths inimitable columnsminiature masterpieces that remain the gold standard in sports writing.Here are Smiths indelible profiles of sports luminaries, which show his gift for distilling a careers essence in a single column. Unforgettable accounts of historic occasionsBobby Thompsons Shot Heard Round the World, Don Larsens perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the first AliFrazier fightare joined by more offbeat stories that display Smiths unmistakable wit, intelligence, and breadth of feeling. Here, too, are more personal glimpses into Smiths life and work, revealed in stories about his lifelong passion for fishing and in My PressBox Memoirs, a 1975 reminiscence for Esquire collected here for the first time.
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