A folllowup to what I just wrote about sports criticism. Ted, the other substack subscription that I have is to David Warsh's ECONOMIC PRINCIPALS, which is about exactly what that name suggest: economic and financial issues. But Warsh has several other issues also. This is from a recent column of his:
A folllowup to what I just wrote about sports criticism. Ted, the other substack subscription that I have is to David Warsh's ECONOMIC PRINCIPALS, which is about exactly what that name suggest: economic and financial issues. But Warsh has several other issues also. This is from a recent column of his:
"Because it was August, I was reading Tall Men, Short Shorts, the 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt. Russ. Lakers. Celts, and a Very Young Sports Reporter (Doubleday, 2021). Leigh Montville was one of the many excellent sports columnist at The Boston Globe in the twenty years that I was there, somebody whom I always read no matter who or what he was writing about. After he was unreasonably refused an exit as columnist from the ghetto of sports, he left the paper for Sports Illustrated where he wrote extended features and the back of the magazine column for many years. He wrote eight books along the way. Tall Men, Short Pants is his ninth, a summing-up of much he learned about life in a fifty-year career as a journalist. "
A folllowup to what I just wrote about sports criticism. Ted, the other substack subscription that I have is to David Warsh's ECONOMIC PRINCIPALS, which is about exactly what that name suggest: economic and financial issues. But Warsh has several other issues also. This is from a recent column of his:
"Because it was August, I was reading Tall Men, Short Shorts, the 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt. Russ. Lakers. Celts, and a Very Young Sports Reporter (Doubleday, 2021). Leigh Montville was one of the many excellent sports columnist at The Boston Globe in the twenty years that I was there, somebody whom I always read no matter who or what he was writing about. After he was unreasonably refused an exit as columnist from the ghetto of sports, he left the paper for Sports Illustrated where he wrote extended features and the back of the magazine column for many years. He wrote eight books along the way. Tall Men, Short Pants is his ninth, a summing-up of much he learned about life in a fifty-year career as a journalist. "