Sports writing as God intended it: punchy, lyrical, observant, knowledgeable, and smart. At some point Kahn takes issue with the concept of progress, granting that many things (color TVs, weapons, sneakers, tennis rackets, word processors) are indisputably better today than in the past but other ...
I requested this book from the library expecting to love it, but the first few pages were so choked with baseball nostalgia of endless days of summer, boys growing to be gods in the green cathedrals of yesteryear, the tragic ending in the bitter days of autumn, blah blah blah. I almost put it do...
Anderson, who has a well-deserved reputation for fair-mindedness, covered the Dodgers during the team’s final five years in Brooklyn. Rickey was gone by then, exiled to Pittsburgh, where his masterly touch was not yet clearly evident. (A season later, 1958, the Pirates finished second and the Dod...