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Out of Left Field: A Sportswriter's Last Word

Out of Left Field: A Sportswriter's Last Word

Isaacs, Stan
Goudsouzian, Aram
Goudsouzian, Aram

Paperback

Series: Sport and Society

AthletesWriting InstructionSports General

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ISBN10: 0252087887
ISBN13: 9780252087882
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
My idol growing up, all I wanted to be, was Stan Isaacs. --Tony Kornheiser

Stan Isaacs is directly responsible for my television career--and much of how I approached what I've said and whom I've said it about. --Keith Olbermann

Iconoclastic and irreverent, Stan Isaacs was part of a generation that bucked the sports establishment with a skepticism for authority, an appreciation for absurdity, and a gift for placing athletes and events within the context of their tumultuous times. Isaacs draws on his trademark wink-and-a-grin approach to tell the story of the long-ago Brooklyn that formed him and a career that placed him amidst the major sporting events of his era. Mixing reminiscences with column excerpts, Isaacs recalls antics like stealing a Brooklyn Dodgers pennant after the team moved to Los Angeles and his many writings on Paul Revere's horse. But Isaacs also reveals the crusading and humanist instincts that gave Black athletes like Muhammad Ali a rare forum to express their views and celebrated the oddball, unsung Mets over the straitlaced Yankees.

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