The Art Spander Collection / Introduction by Al Michaels

Spander, Art

ISBN 10: 0878336494 / ISBN 13: 9780878336494

Published by Dallas, Tex. : Taylor Pub., 1989

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 272 pages; Description: xvi, 272 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Sports--United States. Newspapers--Sections, columns, etc. --Sports. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Art Spander Collection / Introduction by Al Michaels
• Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Taylor Pub.
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878336494
• ISBN 13: 9780878336494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Cloth; Mint; Dust Jacket - Like New; Black cloth binding, MINT illus. dj., title in white, picture of author. Black endpapers, 272pp. Introduction by Al Michaels. The book is part of "The Sportswriter's Eye" series that celebrates great & contemporary American sportswriters. Art Spander writes about the first major-league baseball game in San Francisco, or profiles such greats as Joe Montana, Joe DiMaggio, etc. A MINT copy.

Reviews

Sports columnist for the San Francisco Examiner , Spander here assembles an anthology of his newspaper pieces, with an emphasis on West Coast play. He writes about Reggie Jackson, Jack Clark, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Joe Montana, jockey Eddie Delahoussaye, skier Annemarie Moser-Proell, golfer Johnny Miller, Ivan Lendl at Wimbledon and the Boston Red Sox in the 1986 World Series. While covering a wide range of sports, Spander's best columns are in the final sections, "Piques and Valleys" and "Levity, the Role of Wit," in which he blasts venal athletes, sports figures who take themselves with deadly seriousness and the malevolent influence of TV on sports. Written against the deadline demands of daily journalism, many of the pieces are too topical and of the moment; others, going back to 1979, are dated. The book is likely to interest only Spander's local fans.
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Four more volumes in Taylor's series of anthologies by famous American sports writers. Each volume contains an introduction by other notables, e.g., Dan Rather, Lewis Grizzard, etc., and a preface by the authors themselves. Of other volumes in the series, LJ 's reviewer (6/1/88) stated, "When considered as a set, the books give a full picture of the American sporting scene in the last 20 years."-- MR
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