The Jim Murray Reader

ISBN-13: 9780803283268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str.

Jim Murray

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Jim Murray, the dean of American sportswriters, entertained readers with writing that is so good and so funny that even people who don t like sports read him. The Jim Murray Reader gathers some of Murray s best columns from the height of his career and showcases the wit and the style that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1990.
His inexhaustible talent and limitless range are on full display here: from the perplexities of tennis scoring ( a game in which love counts for nothing, deuces are wild, and the scoring system was invented by Lewis Carroll ) and baseball rules ( The infield fly rule is about as simple as calligraphy. It might as well be a Japanese naval code ) to Murray s Laws ( The way to make a line move faster is to join the other one ) and many of his colorful profiles ( Richard Petty has climbed in more windows than 50 car thieves. . . . He wasn t born, he was assembled and modified ).His striking images, evocative prose, and hyperbolic one-liners have made Murray one of the most quotable and most celebrated sports columnists of the twentieth century.
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