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The View from the Dugout

The Journals of Red Rolfe

By: Red Rolfe

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Baseball players as a rule aren't known for documenting their experiences on the diamond. During his time as manager of the Detroit Tigers from 1949 to 1951, Red Rolfe, however, recorded daily accounts of each game, including candid observations about his team's performance, and the strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies of opposing players and managers, and he used these observations to coach his players and to gain an advantage. Rolfe's journals carry added value considering his own career as an All-Star Yankee third baseman on numerous world champion teams, where he was a teammate of Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio. Today, in the era of televised broadcasts, networks often wire a manager so viewers can listen to his spontaneous comments throughout the game. Red Rolfe's journals offer an opportunity to find out what a manager is thinking when no one is around to hear.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472031481

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The View from the Dugout

The Journals of Red Rolfe

By: Red Rolfe

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The Journals of Red Rolfe

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To Absent Friends

By: Red Smith

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To Absent Friends

By: Red Smith

A collection of Smith's sports columns eulogizing sports figures, including Knute Rockne, Babe Ruth, Vince Lombardi, Grantland Rice, Connie Mack, and Sonny Liston.

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524

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Scribner

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0689112009

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9780689112003

American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)

By: Red Smith

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American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)

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Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith was the most widely read sportswriter of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the New York Herald Tribune and later for The New York Times traversed the world of sports with literary panache and wry humor. “I’ve always had the notion,” Smith once said, “that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again.” Now, writer and editor (and inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball) Daniel Okrent presents the best of Smith’s inimitable columns—miniature masterpieces that remain the gold standard in sportswriting. Here are Smith’s indelible profiles of sports luminaries, which show his gift for distilling a career’s essence in a single column. Unforgettable accounts of historic occasions—Bobby Thompson’s Shot Heard ’Round the World, Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the first Ali-Frazier fight—are joined by more offbeat stories that display Smith’s unmistakable wit, intelligence, and breadth of feeling. Here, too, are more personal glimpses into Smith’s life and work, revealed in stories about his lifelong passion for fishing and in “My Press-Box Memoirs,” a 1975 reminiscence for Esquire collected here for the first time. A Special Publication of The Library of America.

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480

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Library of America

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1598532766

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9781598532760

The Red Smith Reader

By: Red Smith

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The Red Smith Reader

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The Red Smith Reader is a collection designed for the general reader unlucky enough to have missed Smith's reign as the most beloved sportswriter in America. Beginning at the Milwaukee Sentinel, Red Smith wrote for the St. Louis Journal, Philadelphia Record, New York Herald Tribune, and the New York Times. He wrote about the sports that interested him such as baseball, football, boxing, horse racing -- and often about one of his passions, fly-fishing. His style was strictly journalistic, avoiding sporting clichés and over-dramatic description. This stance was ratified when he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1976, for distinguished commentary. Asked about the difficulty of turning out a column, Mr. Smith's reply has become legend: ''Writing is easy, '' he said. ''I just open a vein and bleed.

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Vintage

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0394717503

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Book's by Red Rolfe

The View from the Dugout

The View from the Dugout

The View from the Dugout

The View from the Dugout

To Absent Friends

To Absent Friends

American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)

American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)

The Red Smith Reader

The Red Smith Reader

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