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My Life As A Sportswriter
Atlantic Monthly Press
May 2012
On Sale: May 1, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 0802120156
EAN: 9780802120151
Kindle: B007V5AWXC
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter is as
unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford’s remarkable
career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the
characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium.
Deford joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh, and
fresh out of Princeton. In 1990, he was Editor-in-Chief of
The National Sports Daily, one of the most
ambitious—and ill-fated—projects in the history of American
print journalism. But then, he’s endured: writing ten
novels, winning an Emmy (not to mention being a fabled Lite
Beer All-Star), and last week he read something like his
fourteen-hundredth commentary on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” From the Mad Men-like days of SI in the ‘60s, and the
“bush” years of the early NBA, to Deford’s visit to
apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe, and his friend’s
brave and tragic death, Over Time is packed with
intriguing people and stories. Interwoven through his
personal history, Deford lovingly traces the entire arc of
American sportswriting from the lurid early days of the
Police Gazette, through Grantland Rice and Red Smith and on
up to ESPN. This is a wonderful, inspired book—equal parts
funny and touching—a treasure for sports fans. Just like
Frank Deford.
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