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NYT’s Jim Brosnan Obit Lacks Heinz-Sight
Jim Brosnan, a baseball-hurler-turned-word-twirler, died last week, as the New York Times noted yesterday. From the estimable Bruce Weber’s obit: Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as a relief … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Liebling, Bernard Malamud, Bruce Weber, Cincinnati Reds, Death of a Racehorse, Ernest Hemingway, Floyd Patterson, Frank Graham, Fred Lieb, Grantland Rice, Jim Brosnan, Jimmy Cannon, John Lardner, Jonathan Yardley, Lou Boudreau, Lou Gehrig: Boy of the Sandlots, New York Sun, New York Times, Once They Heard the Cheers, Player-Manager, Red Smith, Ring Lardner, Sports Illustrated, The Baseball Story, The Long Season, The Natural, W.C. Heinz, Washington Post, You Know Me Al
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Great American Sportswriter Lists Lack Heinz Sight
Two recent pieces (not to be confused with Reese’s Pieces) about American sportswriters have excluded one name from the roll call of the best at their craft: W.C. Heinz, Heavyweight Champion of the Word as Jeff MacGregor dubbed him in a … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Liebling, Brownsville Bum, Damon Runyon, Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Heavyweight Champion of the Word, Jeff MacGregor, Jim Murray, Jimmy Breslin, Last King of the Sports Page, New York Times, Nicholas Dawidoff, Once They Heard the Cheers, Red Smith, Ring Lardner, Roger Angell, Sports Illustrated, The Professional, W.C. Heinz, Wall Street Journal
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