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Title American pastimes : the very best of Red Smith / edited and with an introduction by Daniel Okrent ; afterword by Terence Smith.
Author Smith, Red, 1905-1982, author.
Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Library Of America, [2013]
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Description xli, 560 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-539) and index.
Contents Baseball 1934-1951 -- Sports in the Forties -- Fishing for trout -- Sports in the Fifties -- Baseball 1952-1961 -- Sports in the Sixties -- Fishing for bass -- Sports in the Seventies -- Baseball 1962-1981.
Summary Walter Wellesley "Red" 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. Now, writer and editor Daniel Okrent presents the best of Smith's inimitable columns ---miniature masterpieces that remain the gold standard in sportswriting.
Subject Sports -- United States.
Sports journalism -- United States.
Added Author Okrent, Daniel, 1948-, editor, contributor.
Added Title Very best of Red Smith
ISBN 9781598532173 : $29.95
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