American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith: A Library of

American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith: A Library of America Special Publication

Walter Wellesley â€œRedâ€ Smith was the most widely read sportswriter 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. â€œIâ€™ve always had the notion,â€ Smith once said, â€œthat people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again.â€ Now, writer and editor (and inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball) Daniel Okrent presents the best of Smithâ€™s inimitable columnsâ€”miniature masterpieces that remain the gold standard in sportswriting.

Here are Smithâ€™s indelible profiles of sports luminaries, which show his gift for distilling a careerâ€™s essence in a single column. Unforgettable accounts of historic occasionsâ€”Bobby Thompsonâ€™s Shot Heard â€™Round the World, Don Larsenâ€™s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the first Ali-Frazier fightâ€”are joined by more offbeat stories that display Smithâ€™s unmistakable wit, intelligence, and breadth of feeling. Here, too, are more personal glimpses into Smithâ€™s life and work, revealed in stories about his lifelong passion for fishing and in â€œMy Press-Box Memoirs,â€ a 1975 reminiscence for Esquire collected here for the first time.

A Special Publication of The Library of America.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2013-05-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598532173

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2013-05-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598532173

American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith: A Library of America Special Publication

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