Frank Deford is always great to hear on NPR, and impressive in his scope of knowledge and general presence. His writing is packed with incisive wit and keen analysis about the human-interest side of sports, which to me is far more interesting than the scores. This book is a collection of his pe...
When you hear Deford's commentary on NPR's Morning Edition (or see it on HBO's Real Sports), his love of sports - especially the history of sports - is evident in his grandfatherly voice. He clearly knows his sports (he's been a Sports Illustrated writer since the Sixties), but what really makes ...
He was 25–6 with a 1.14 ERA in 1909, then 27–9 and 1.89 in 1910. He kept winning at least twenty games a season thirteen years in a row, right on through 1914, when he was thirty-three, and then, just like that, his arm seemed to wear out overnight. But for all Matty’s personal success, he in par...