Tells the story of baseball during and after World War II - when clubs still traveled by train, when night games and artificial lighting began to replace hot afternoons at the ball park, when the major leagues finally took on the talent that had been restricted to the Negro leagues, and when baseball started to become big business.
Tells the story of baseball during and after World War II - when clubs still traveled by train, when night games and artificial lighting began to repl...
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 pros...
"August Adolphus Busch Jr., the new president of the Cardinals, is a chubby gentleman called Gussie, about the size of a St. Louis brewer. He has horn-rimmed glasses, a zillion dollars and an air of pleased bewilderment. He rides to the hounds and travels by bus." It's not hard to pluck a memorable passage from the sportswriting of Red Smith. In more than fifty years as a newspaperman, notably with the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times, he earned a reputation as the best writer ever to confront the game of baseball astute, clever, witty, and stylish. In this bountiful selection...
"August Adolphus Busch Jr., the new president of the Cardinals, is a chubby gentleman called Gussie, about the size of a St. Louis brewer. He has horn...
From The House that Ruth Built to the grass courts of Wimbledon, from the opening tip to the nineteenth hole, Red Smith s Press Box offers a bird s-eye view of the greatest moments in sports history. Literary or low-down, ringside or rinkside, the meticulous eye and wide-angle wit of these classics promise great reading for every sports fan.
From The House that Ruth Built to the grass courts of Wimbledon, from the opening tip to the nineteenth hole, Red Smith s Press Box offers a bird s-ey...
An inside baseball memoir from the game's first superstar, with a foreword by Chad Harbach
Christy Mathewson was one of the most dominant pitchers ever to play baseball. Posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of the -Five Immortals, - he was an unstoppable force on the mound, winning at least twenty-two games for twelve straight seasons and pitching three complete-game shutouts in the 1905 World Series. Pitching in a Pinch, his witty and digestible book of baseball insights, stories, and wisdom, was first published over a hundred years ago and presents...
An inside baseball memoir from the game's first superstar, with a foreword by Chad Harbach
