RED SMITH RDR V750

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Summary: The Red Smith Reader
Review: Contains 131 columns (many of which were never collected in a book before) by one of the best sportswriters around. Whether he is writing about the murders at the Olympics of 1972 (berating the officials for letting the games continue as planned afterwards) or about Willie Mays who walked away "grinning" from a difficult, near disastrous game with the Oakland A's near the end of his career ("Strictly speaking, Willie never lost the game and never won it") Smith is at the top of his form in this collection.