Atlantic Monthly Press
May 2012
On Sale: May 1, 2012
288 pages ISBN: 0802120156 EAN: 9780802120151 Kindle: B007V5AWXC Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Defordβs 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 ambitiousβand ill-fatedβprojects in the history of American print journalism. But then, heβs 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 NPRβs βMorning Edition.β
From the Mad Men-like days of SI in the β60s, and the βbushβ years of the early NBA, to Defordβs visit to apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe, and his friendβs 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 bookβequal parts funny and touchingβa treasure for sports fans. Just like Frank Deford.
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