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Red Smith on Baseball

The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years

Red Smith on Baseball( )
Author: Smith, Red
Foreword by: Berkow, Ira
ISBN:978-1-56663-415-1
Publication Date:Dec 2001
Publisher:Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.95
Book Description:

Red Smith's writing is recognized as the best in the field. Here is a selection of his most memorable columns--175 of them, from 1941 to 1981. "His prose...offers lasting lessons about matters journalistic and literary."--Robert Schmuhl, University of Notre Dame. "The most admired and gifted sportswriter of his time.... Red Smith's work...tended to be the best writing in any given newspaper on any given day."--David Halberstam, New York Times Book Review.

Book Details
Pages:376
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.66 x 9 x 1.08 Inches
Book Weight:1.18 Pounds
Author Biography
Smith, Red (Author)


Walter Wellesley Smith (Red Smith) was born on Septmber 25, 1905 in Green Bay Wisconsin. He attended the University of Notre Dame and graduated in 1927. He began his sports writing career at the St. Louis Journal, then the Philadelphia Record and the New York Herald Tribune. He wrote three columns a week that were printed in 275 newspapers.

Throughout his writing career Red Smith earned several awards. In 1976 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He also received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. This is baseball's highest honor for print journalists. His title's include The Best of Red Smith, Views of Sport amd Out of the Red. He died on January 15, 1982.

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