Hi all. Just wanted to share an obituary written by our great sports writer here in Australia Greg Baum, on another wonderful wordsmith, Peter...
Have finished Sound and Fury by the great D Kindred. Damn, why didn't I buy this book four years ago? In my mind Kindred is a towering figure...
I'm almost done with Mr Kindred's book on Ali and Cosell. It's superb. Knocked over in the past few months: Paul's Hemphill's The Heart of...
And John Schulian's Twilight of the Long-ball Gods is also outstanding
Also loved Michael Sokolove's The Ticket Out and his biography of Pete Rose
Richard Ben Cramers' book on Joe Red Smith biography by Ira Berkow In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle, by Madeleine Blais It Never Rains in Tiger...
Scoop, thanks for the Jim Murray bit. It prompted me to go to the study and pull out one of his anthologies. Wonderful stuff. But some modesty...
Mr Bio, that was one great article. The research was utterly exhaustive. ::)
It's interesting you say that, Flip. Going on its inclusion in the Sports Illustrated top 100 sports books, I tracked down a really nice copy on...
My Amazon order arrived here in Melbourne, Australia last night and I tore through 60 pages. What a subject and what a writer. Kindred is so...
He came to Australia for some tournaments about 20 years ago and made a ruckus wherever he went. That's a fabulous read, that Borrows book
An excerpt from The Hurricane. It's terrific http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,803087,00.html
You've nailed it, Huggy. The McIvanney piece on Owen stayed with me for weeks after I read it. So, so sad Frank, I will look up Playing Off...
I have about 60 of the 100, many of them bought second hand from Amazon. But the Aussie dollar is weak and it costs me a fortune to have...
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