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Excerpt from Sports Extra: Classics of Sports ReportingNot all the selections belong in the realm of pure literature. The boys had no time to compose a piece for the ages: it is, indeed, a wonder that the syntax IS relatively unscrambled and the English is reasonably good. The majority of these stories was written in a huge, outdoor psychopathic ward with anywhere from 30 to inmates screaming insanely and the copy desk demanding a lead for the...

Excerpt from Sports Extra: Classics of Sports Reporting It has been said that much of the best and most arresting writing to be found in American newspapers appears on the sport pages, a thesis we do not intend to stress or substantiate. The only purpose of this book is to present representative specimens of sportswriting that have inspired highly favorable and flattering acceptance of the men who report sport as competent craftsmen in their ...