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Hardcover The Red Smith Reader Book

ISBN: 0394528115

ISBN13: 9780394528113

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?Quite simply the most thorough collection ever of the master’s work . . . a joy to everyone who picks it up.”?John Schulian, The Chicago Sun-TimesAwarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1976, Walter Wellesley ?Red” Smith is considered one of the greatest sportswriters ever to live. Put alongside Ring Lardner, Red Smith was beloved by those who read him because of his crisp writing and critical views.Originally released in 1982, The Red Smith Reader is a wonderful...

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Superb Columns, Superb Columnist

Red Smith (1905-1982) began as a sports writer in 1927, became a sports columnist in 1939, and then kept writing columns until he passed away. He once admitted, "The columns don't write themselves." So Smith worked hard and wrote thousands of very good ones for the Philadelphia Record, New York Herald Tribune, and New York Times. This book is a compilation of over 130 of his best pieces. Smith wrote with great wit and...

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The Red Smith Reader

Contains 131 columns (many of which were never collected in a book before) by one of the best sportswriters around. Whether he is writing about the murders at the Olympics of 1972 (berating the officials for letting the games continue as planned afterwards) or about Willie Mays who walked away "grinning" from a difficult, near disastrous game with the Oakland A's near the end of his career ("Strictly speaking, Willie never...

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