No Cheering in the Press Box

Holtzman, Jerome (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0805038248 / ISBN 13: 9780805038248

Published by Henry Holt & Co, New York, NY, 1995

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1995. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 363 pages. 0420.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Cheering in the Press Box
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805038248
• ISBN 13: 9780805038248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

Paul Gallico, Shirley Povich, Ford Frick, Red Smith, Jimmy Cannon: these are among the twenty-four sportswriters Jerome Holtzman interviewed, reporters who were most active in what's known as the Golden Age of Sports, the time between the two world wars when newspapers, not TV, re-created the drama of the boxing ring, the racetrack, and, above all, the baseball field. This revised and updated edition includes six previously unpublished chapters, offering more of the era's most famous sportswriters - Wendell Smith, Al Abrams, Fred Russell, Gene Kessler, Ray Gillespie, and Jim Schlemmer - and a new introduction by the great journalist himself. In their own casual, spicy words, these men give us their reminiscences and opinions - a collection that stands as a landmark of American oral history.