Author: Zachary Michael Jack
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: game, sportswriters, ropes, inside
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0803259972
ISBN-13: 9780803259973

Most of us will never know what it’s like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it’s our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover—returning with firsthand tales from “inside the ropes.” Here, in the tradition popularized by George Plimpton, is participatory sportswriting at its finest and most far-out. Editor Zachary Michael Jack fields a dream team of today’s best sports journalists, hotshots, and rising stars in search of the game b

Author: Jim Reisler
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: black, covered, negro, leagues, sportswriters, articles, writers, baseball, anthology
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0786429070
ISBN-13: 9780786429073

This revised edition is an anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered baseball’s Negro Leagues in the first part of the 20th century. The writers include Sam Lacy, Wendell Smith, Frank A. Young, Joe Bostic, Chester L. Washington, W. Rollo Wilson, Dan Burley, Ed Harris, A.S. "Doc" Young and Romeo Dougherty. The men represented here were pioneers in their own right. Writing for black weekly newspapers, they faced the same conditions as the leagues’ players, from discrimination to endless travel. Yet it was through their writings that the public, both black and white w