Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 376
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-56663-289-8 • Hardback • February 2000 • $24.95 • (£18.99)
978-1-56663-415-1 • Paperback • December 2001 • $18.95 • (£14.99)
Red Smith (1905–1982) was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was graduated from Notre Dame, and worked at newspapers in Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Philadelphia before coming to New York. His writing on sports won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award. Ira Berkow, Red Smith's biographer, is a sports columnist for the New York Times.
If there is one diamond marriage, it has to be the one between columnist Red Smith and the game he covered for something approaching five decades.
— Chuck Chalberg; Elysian Fields Quarterly
Perhaps a new generation will pick up this book and discover the poetry in Americas' deliberate game.
— Robert Holland, King's College London; Richmond Times-Dispatch
I would suggest to the editors of Red Smith on Baseball a solution: Red Smith on Baseball II.
— John Greenya; The Review of Higher Education
Smith was sport-writing's voice of sanity...good to have you back, old friend.
— Ron Fimrite; Sports Illustrated
This collection reminds us...Red's baseball writing sparkled with his customary style and insight.
— Bob Costas, Broadcaster, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, 2018 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award
Unrivaled on the sports page...nothing less than Smith at his best.
— David Halberstam; The New York Times