The Poetic, Bombastic, Brilliant Art Of Old-School Sports Writing
"The brilliant hard-boiled lyricism of Sandy Grady, in 1964, as he watches a crowd of Phillies fans after a home loss: 'They hit the sidewalk with tight mouths, like people who had seen a train hit a car.' Or Joe Palmer, in 1951, summoning a vision of the racehorse Man o' War in motion: 'Great […]