Summary
This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he made his reput... Full description
- A not very bright boy
- Something of a vote of confidence
- In which I first encounter faster guns
- Roamer
- Granny
- Walking in place
- Old-timers
- The Vietnam War is finally over
- Push on
- The best advice I ever got in my whole life
- Scribes for the cranks and the fancy
- El Tigre
- In which I finally discover the difference between winning and losing
- Bawlmer, Merlin, my hametown
- Gee whiz
- Beauty and the beasts
- This just in : writing can be fun
- In which I happen upon an eye-opener
- Kingsley
- My damn name
- It happens to the best of us
- The way it was. Really
- The Kid
- Andre
- Mr. King will see you now
- Hobey and Danny and Bill
- The most amazing feat in sport in the twentieth century
- Hub tales
- My man
- Anglophile
- Remember "consciousness-raising"?
- Fun in the sun
- Summer songs
- Roadie
- With ease or angst
- Lost in translation
- The anchor leg
- The sweetest thing I ever saw an athlete do for a member of the Fourth Estate
- You won't believe this
- The most amazing thing I ever say an athlete do
- Red
- The amateur voice
- The best I was ever fired
- Naked slept the Commissioner
- Taboo
- Last call.