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Red Smith on Baseball

The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years

Red Smith

Ivan R. Dee · Print & ebook · February 8, 2000

Red Smith's writing is recognized as the best in the field.

Baseball EssaysSports WritingJournalism
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Who it’s for
A selection of 175 Red Smith columns, published between 1941 and 1981.
Themes
Baseball, Sports journalism, Literary craft
Genres
Baseball Essays, Journalism, Sports Writing

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About this book

Red Smith's writing is recognized as the best in the field. Here is a selection of his most memorable columns—175 of them, from 1941 to 1981. His prose...offers lasting lessons about matters journalistic and literary. —Robert Schmuhl, University of Notre Dame. The most admired and gifted sportswriter of his time.... Red Smith's work...tended to be the best writing in any given newspaper on any given day. —David Halberstam, New York Times Book Review

Four Decades of Columns

A selection of 175 Red Smith columns, published between 1941 and 1981.

Come here for

  • Red Smith’s columns from 1941 to 1981

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  • A selection of 175 columns

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Baseball Essays98%
Journalism48%
Sports Writing36%

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Publisher categories

  • Literary Criticism
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Baseball
  • Baseball History
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  • Sports Writing
Authors
Red Smith
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Published
February 8, 2000
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Baseball · Sports journalism · Literary craft
Reading lane
Literary Criticism