RED SMITH'S SPORTS ANNUAL 1961...Events of all Sports of 1960

by Smith, Red

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NY:: Crown,, 1960-61. Hardcover; dust jacket lightly age-soiled on rear fold-over; otherwise, jacket & book in good condition.. Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith (1906-82), most widely-syndicated sports columnist in America, was a modern master of the English language; his columns in the Philadelphia Record, N.Y. Herald-Tribune & The N.Y. Times--free of sports journalism cliches--were a delight to read, & won 1976 Pulitzer Prize. ||| He covers racing--the ponies, cars, Tour de France; golf; the fights; football; & his true love--baseball--with stories about the Pirates winning 1960 Series; Stengel; Berra; Skowron; Killibrew, et al., a sheer pleasure of enjoyable reading. ||| Smith, born & raised in Green Bay, Wis. was memoralized when the Red Smith Public School, Green Bay's newest, was dedicated in 1999.