| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
vi, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Frank Deford joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he recounts not just the expense-account shenanigans and the antiquated racial and sexual mores, but the professional camaraderie and the friendships with athletes and coaches during the "bush" years of the early NBA and the twilight of "shamateur tennis." In 1990, he was editor in chief of The National Sports Daily, one of the most ambitious projects in the history of American print journalism. Backed by eccentric Mexican billionaire Emilio "El Tigre" Azcarraga, The National made history and lost $150 million in less than two years. Yet the author endured: writing ten novels, winning a Peabody, an Emmy, and recently he read his fifteenth-hundred commentary on NPR's Morning Edition, which reaches millions of listeners. |
| Subject |
Deford, Frank.
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Sportswriters -- United States -- Biography.
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Sports journalism -- United States.
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| Added Title |
Overtime, my life as a sportswriter |
| ISBN |
9780802120151 hardcover $25.00 |
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0802120156 hardcover $25.00 |
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