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Tag Archives: Library of America
Leigh Montville Has 20/20 Heinz Sight in WSJ Review
The hardworking staff is a longtime fan of the great W.C. Heinz, and we’re hoping everyone else will catch up with us thanks to the Library of America’s new publication, The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W.C. … Continue reading
Joseph Epstein Review Of Red Smith Anthology Lacks Heinz Sight
One of the several joys of subscribing to The Weekly Standard is the work of Joseph Epstein, a writer of uncommon sense and sensibility. His piece last week was a review of American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, a Library … Continue reading
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Tagged American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, Death of a Racehorse, Frank Graham, Grantland Rice, Jeff MacGregor, Jimmy Cannon, John Lardner, Joseph Epstein, Library of America, New York Sun, New York Times, Red Smith, Ring Lardner, Sports Illustrated, The Weekly Standard, W.C. Heinz
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How To Get A World Series Ring
Friday’s Boston Herald op-ed page featured a piece by Cornelius Chapman that serves as a perfect segue to post-season baseball in Boston. Sports scribe put literary hat in Ring Of all the newspaper reporters ever to tap a typewriter in Boston, only … Continue reading
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Yankees pennant race, Boston Braves, Boston Rustlers, Con Chapman, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Library of America, Ring Lardner, The Boston-American, The Portable Ring Lardner, The Year of the Gerbil, The Young Immigrunts, Virginia Woolf
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