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Red Smith on Baseball
Red Smith
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Description for Red Smith on Baseball
Hardback. In this bountiful selection of his most memorable columns, baseball fans can recapture some of baseball's greatest moments and unforgettable characters. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 34. Weight in Grams: 744.
Red Smith's writing is recognized as the best in the field. Here is a selection of his most memorable columns—175 of them, from 1941 to 1981. His prose...offers lasting lessons about matters journalistic and literary. —Robert Schmuhl, University of Notre Dame. The most admired and gifted sportswriter of his time.... Red Smith's work...tended to be the best writing in any given newspaper on any given day. —David Halberstam, New York Times Book Review
Red Smith's writing is recognized as the best in the field. Here is a selection of his most memorable columns—175 of them, from 1941 to 1981. His prose...offers lasting lessons about matters journalistic and literary. —Robert Schmuhl, University of Notre Dame. The most admired and gifted sportswriter of his time.... Red Smith's work...tended to be the best writing in any given newspaper on any given day. —David Halberstam, New York Times Book Review
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566632898
SKU
V9781566632898
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About Red Smith
Red Smith (1905D1982) was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was graduated from Notre Dame, and worked at newspapers in Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Philadelphia before coming to New York. His writing on sports won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award. Ira Berkow, Red SmithOs biographer, is a sports columnist for the New York Times.
Reviews for Red Smith on Baseball
If there is one diamond marriage, it has to be the one between columnist Red Smith and the game he covered for something approaching five decades.
Chuck Chalberg
Elysian Fields Quarterly
Perhaps a new generation will pick up this book and discover the poetry in Americas' deliberate game.
Robert Holland, King's College London
Richmond Times-Dispatch ... Read more
Chuck Chalberg
Elysian Fields Quarterly
Perhaps a new generation will pick up this book and discover the poetry in Americas' deliberate game.
Robert Holland, King's College London
Richmond Times-Dispatch ... Read more