RIP David Halberstam

[Left_Coast]

AP just moved an alert that he was killed in a car crash in California.

 

[bigpern23]

Holy **** ... just saw this on the news.

Shocking really.

Saw him speak at my college a few years ago. Fascinating guy.

RIP

 

[Chi City 81]

WHAT?! Damn. RIP, David.

 

[tyler durden 71351]

Oh no! That's horrible news.

 

[Left_Coast]

A giant. His stuff was just incredible.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Damn, and already updated on Wikipedia.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Brilliant writer... One of the best ever...

Tragic news... This really sucks...

RIP...

 

[playthrough]

Just heard about it at the end of SportsCenter. Dammit. His work inspired me to get into the writing biz.

 

[JackyJackBN]

The Reckoning made the subject of the rise of Japanese auto makers accessible to many people who would have never thought it through without this book. A valuable citizen, gone. RIP David.

 

[zeke12]

Damn, that sucks.

RIP, David.

 

[tommyp]

Who can forget "Summer of '49?"

I won't.

RIP, David.

 

[cake in the rain]

And his Wikipedia entry has already been vandalized. Classy.

 

[SF_Express]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash early Monday, a coroner said. He was 73.

Halberstam, a New Yorker, was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle near in Menlo Park, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said.

"Looking at the accident and examining him at the scene indicated it's most likely internal injuries," Foucrault said.

Three others were injured.

 

[Duane Postum]

That really, really sucks. One of the biggest reasons I went into journalism was my admiration for his work.

 

[WildBillyCrazyCat]

What awful news. As someone said before, a giant.

RIP.

 

[KnuteRockne]

Halberstam and Vonnegut. Same ****ing month. ****.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

God, what a blow.
He spoke at my college, too. After the speech, he hung with us and argued about basketball, Then three of us drove him to the airport and he had trouble getting out of the car. He asked for help with his bag.
"Get it yourself," my friend told him. "You won the ****ing Pulitzer prize."
He cracked up.
A great, great man.
RIP

 

[LiveStrong]

Awful, awful news.

 

[Sly]

I'm speechless ...

 

[Starman]

I don't share the godlike awe many people hold for Halberstam, because his sports books were just shot through from cover to cover with egregrious screaming errors, but he was still a hell of a writer, and a very influential one, too.

R.I.P.