RIP Bud Shrake

[DanOregon]

Legend of Texas sportswriting.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/0508dnmetshrake.6b72e04.html

 

[playthrough]

RIP. "The Little Red Book" was great.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Very sad news. RIP. What a wonderful writer.

 

[Blitz]

The man was an iconic presence before and during the Cowboys' rise to iconic status here in Texas and worldwide.
Shrake is certainly well-known in these parts and will gain larger status on the national stage following his death.
RIP Bud

 

[friend of the friendless]

Sirs, Madames,

One of my all-time favorites, great cover, a much better time.

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1081880/index.htm

o-<

 

[txsportsscribe]

author of the best-selling sports book in publishing history and only a handful of comments?

rip, former 1st guy of texas.

 

[SockPuppet]

RIP, Mr. Shrake

If there was a Mt. Rushmore for great, Texas-bred sportswriters, you'd start with Sherrod, Jenkins and Shrake.

 

[Blitz]

author of the best-selling sports book in publishing history and only a handful of comments?
rip, former 1st guy of texas.

People don't really know, I'm afraid, the talents of Mr. Shrake.
They think The Little Red Book was written by Penick.
They aren't really familiar with Harper's Magazine, Willie Morris and many of the people Mr. Shrake ran with.
Many people on this board and many readers in general either didn't see items written in 1960s-70s SI editions or didn't bother with remembering the byline.
That's the simple truth, for whatever it's worth.

Same thing sort of happened with Willie Morris died about ten (it's been that long?) years ago.
A lot of people weren't aware of Willie, for the most part.
I think W. Faulkner, to some degree, endures the same fate.


EDIT: Changed "People on this board ..." to "Many people on this board ..."

Carry on.

 

[txsportsscribe]

author of the best-selling sports book in publishing history and only a handful of comments?
rip, former 1st guy of texas.

People don't really know, I'm afraid, the talents of Mr. Shrake.
They think The Little Red Book was written by Penick.
They aren't really familiar with Harper's Magazine, Willie Morris and many of the people Mr. Shrake ran with.
People on this board and readers in general either didn't see items written in 1960s-70s SI editions or didn't bother with remembering the byline.
That's the simple truth, for whatever it's worth.

Same think sort of happened with Willie Morris died about ten (it's been that long?) years ago.
A lot of people weren't aware of Willie, for the most part.
I think W. Faulkner, to some degree, endures the same fate.

i would hope people on this board know who he is

 

[cranberry]

Shrake and Jenkins went to the same high school. Wow. And imagine being at the Fort Worth Telegram in those days under Blackie Sherrod. That was the heyday.

"When Dan Jenkins brought him to me ... he immediately showed talent and went on to remarkable success and acclaim far beyond the pressbox," Mr. Sherrod wrote in an e-mail Friday. "He said later that had it not been for that introduction he probably would have become a lawyer.

Sounds like he wasn't cheated out of a blessed second in life. Good for him.

 

[Dave Kindred]

I met Bud through Dan Jenkins maybe 10 yrs ago, over drinks and dinner, a delight all night....later interviewed him for my Ali book (he'd made a road trip with the young Cassius for SI, a classic)....Sally considered him a second father, used to babysit her....women loved him, and if Ann Richards loved you, as she did Bud, you got loved to the first degree, was his testimony....

Sally says he "went downriver" in his sleep and that his epitaph should be, "He did everything he wanted to and nothing he didn't want to"....

 

[cranberry]

Sally says he "went downriver" in his sleep and that his epitaph should be, "He did everything he wanted to and nothing he didn't want to"....

Perfect. A life well lived.

 

[DanOregon]

Nice thing about print - if people don't know him now, they can go back and understand why he is so revered. Didn't realize he also wrote the screenplay to "Tom Horn" for Steve McQueen.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

author of the best-selling sports book in publishing history and only a handful of comments?
rip, former 1st guy of texas.

People don't really know, I'm afraid, the talents of Mr. Shrake.
They think The Little Red Book was written by Penick.
They aren't really familiar with Harper's Magazine, Willie Morris and many of the people Mr. Shrake ran with.
Many people on this board and many readers in general either didn't see items written in 1960s-70s SI editions or didn't bother with remembering the byline.
That's the simple truth, for whatever it's worth.

Same thing sort of happened with Willie Morris died about ten (it's been that long?) years ago.
A lot of people weren't aware of Willie, for the most part.
I think W. Faulkner, to some degree, endures the same fate.


EDIT: Changed "People on this board ..." to "Many people on this board ..."

Carry on.

At least we know Mr. Faulkner has done more than simply survive the same fate.

 

[txsportsscribe]

Shrake and Jenkins went to the same high school. Wow. And imagine being at the Fort Worth Telegram in those days under Blackie Sherrod. That was the heyday.

wasn't that at the fort worth press with sherrod as sports editor?

 

[cranberry]

Shrake and Jenkins went to the same high school. Wow. And imagine being at the Fort Worth Telegram in those days under Blackie Sherrod. That was the heyday.

wasn't that at the fort worth press with sherrod as sports editor?

Yes. My mistake -- the afternoon paper.

 

[jackfinarelli]

Sally Jenkins had a great eulogy in today's Washington Post:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/10/AR2009051002087.html

 

[ink-stained wretch]

Another one gone. Anybody ready to step up and fill the hole?

We are less.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I read an obit today that said he and Cartwright used to room together and that their place was the after-the-bars-closed HQ. It also said that Jack Ruby used to hang out there.
I didn't have any notion that he and Ann Richards were a couple.
This was one cool cat.

 

[Pete Wevurski]

From Bud's former SI stablemate Frank Deford:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104057943&ft=1&f=1055