What A Time It Was: The Best of W. C. Heinz on Sports

W. C. Heinz

ISBN 10: 0306810433 / ISBN 13: 9780306810435

Verlag: Da Capo Press, 2001

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May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.97.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0306810433I4N00

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: What A Time It Was: The Best of W. C. Heinz on Sports
• Verlag: Da Capo Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0306810433
• ISBN-13: 9780306810435
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

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Inhaltsangabe

A luminous, wide-ranging collection of sports writing by a writer who "dazzled his peers" (David Halberstam) and set the stage for the New Journalism of Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Jimmy Breslin. Many think that W. C. Heinz stands right alongside the legendary New York Times columnist Red Smith as the greatest sports writer of the 1940s and '50s. Paving the way for the New Journalism of Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Jimmy Breslin, Heinz was the first sports writer to make his living exclusively by writing for magazines. Whether describing mobbed-up boxers, crippled jockeys, lame horses, aspiring ballplayers, or driven football coaches, Heinz's finely etched, indelible portraits recall a sports era less influenced by money, image, and self-indulgence. He collaborated with Vince Lombardi on the book Run to Daylight, cowrote the novel M*A*S*H with Dr. H. Richard Hornberger under the pseudonym Richard Hooker, and wrote what Hemingway considered to be the "only good novel about a fighter I've ever read," The Professional. In this collection of Heinz's finest writing, we meet the immortal Red Grange; the injury-riddled, "purest baseball player" of his era, Pistol Pete Reiser; the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time, Sugar Ray Robinson; and the Brownsville Bum, Bummy Davis, in a story that Jimmy Breslin calls the "best magazine sports story of all time. " Here is a long-overdue homage to a vastly underappreciated writer.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

W. C. Heinz is the coauthor of Run to Daylight, the best-selling autobiography of Vince Lombardi, and MASH, the novel that later became a successful movie and TV series. Da Capo recently published an omnibus collection of his best sportswriting, What a Time It Was. W. C. Heinz lives in Vermont.