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There was once another glittering paper in Manhattan. During its 131 tumultuous years, the New York Herald Tribune often seemed larger than the life it tried to record. Legends stalked its pages: Lucius Beebe, Walter Lippmann, Grantland Rice. Abraham Lincoln courted the paper's support; so did Lyndon Johnson. The Tribune was glamorous in part because of its precarious, hand-to-mouth existence. The paper's death in 1966 lent its history the final stuff of which enduring myths are made: a sad ending...
...Bench ahead of Mickey Cochrane, Bill Dickey and Roy Campanella. I rate Strikeout Artist Nolan Ryan above Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean and Sandy Koufax. And I rate Callahan's pithy, disciplined but delicious piece on the waning golden age above any single article I have ever read by Grantland Rice or Red Smith. So, Tom, don't go around prejudging us as prejudgers! Hear...
...years before his death last January, Smith lost some of the hop on his high hard one. Unable to get out to the ballpark as much, he tried to compensate with guile and memory. By then most of the old sports mob-Joe Louis, Knute Rockne, Grantland Rice and the incomparable saloonkeeper Toots Shor-had been written up on the obituary page. Smith's own goodbyes, collected in To Absent Friends, are enough to make an umpire cry. One of the most poignant was composed for the sportswriter John Lardner: "This is a loss to the living, to every...
...back to the days when the Cubs were fighting for their last pennant (1945) and the White Sox for theirs (1959). Or else the papers had fun concocting elaborate fantasies. The San Francisco Examiner invented a staff writer named "Grant Wheat" (tip of the cap there to the late Grantland Rice) who proclaimed the strike settled on Tuesday and then proceeded to march the teams through a schedule full of offbeat surprises-terrible hitters suddenly erupting in orgies of homers, for example...
...GRAND RHETORICAL pronouncements. No simple enemies to hate, such as white people in general. "We're no longer talking in the narrow, nationalist terms of the late '60s," the big man, Grantland Johnson, says. "We've attempted to build this movement in a multi-racial manner, because it's not the white man who oppresses us. We must place the minority struggle in a broader economic context. Bakke just happened to be the incident that sparked it." It's hard, trying to channel 20,000 people's anger at an economic abstraction rather than at something concrete like Bakke supporters...