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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
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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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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NYT’s Revisionist History Re: IHT
Smart Sam Roberts piece in Thursday’s New York Times about the pending demise of the International Herald Tribune brand. Fondly Recalling a ‘Writer’s Paper’ as a Name Goes Away Ghostly vestiges of the gothic Herald Tribune logo still survive on … Continue reading
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Tagged Breathless, Dick Schaap, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I.H.T., International Herald Tribune, International New York Times, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jimmy Breslin, New York Times, Pete Hamill, Red Smith, Sam Roberts, takeover, Tom Wolfe, Washington Post
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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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Boston Blanked In Best Newspaper Column Of All Time Bakeoff
From our Late to the Party desk: A couple of weeks ago the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog ran this item (via the Missus): What’s the Best Newspaper Column of All Time? The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has weighed … Continue reading
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