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...