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Joe Falls: 50 Years of Sports Writing : (And I Still Can't Tell the Difference between a Slider and a Curve)
author
:
Falls, Joe.
publisher
:
Sports Publishing, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
:
1571671765
print isbn13
:
9781571671769
ebook isbn13
:
9780585046587
language
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English
subject
Falls, Joe, Sports journalism, Sportwriters--Biography.
publication date
:
1997
lcc
:
PN4784.S6
ddc
:
070.4/092
subject
:
Falls, Joe, Sports journalism, Sportwriters--Biography.
Joe Falls: 50 Years of Sports Writing
(And I still can't tell the difference between a slider and a curve)
by Joe Falls
SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. A Division of Sagamore Publishing Champaign, IL 61820
1997 Joe Falls All rights reserved.
Editor, book layout: Susan M. McKinney Dustjacket design: Julie L. Denzer Book and photo insert design: Michelle R. Dressen Front cover illustration: Dick Mayer
ISBN: 1-57167-176-5 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-61763
Printed in the United States.
SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. a division of Sagamore Publishing 804 N. Neil Champaign, IL 61820
To Ted Smits, who made all this possible.
Page v
Contents
Acknowledgments
vi
Introduction
vii
1 The Kid
1
2 Thank You, Mr. Sheary
9
3 "He shoots. He scores!"
23
4 Ebbets Field and Earthquakes
37
5 Fear of Flying (and Drinking)
51
6 Joe D. and Darling Denny
71
7 Number 91518 and The Bird
97
8 Madness at Munich
107
9 18 Managers
119
10 Boo on Bo
131
11 26 Miles, 385 Yards
143
12 Yak, Yak, Yak
149
13 Newspapering
157
14 Mantle and Maz
169
15 Fore on the Floor
175
16 Big Red and Maverick
179
Post Game Notes
185
Page vi
Acknowledgments
A special thanks to my agent, Jane Johnson, for her encouragement, patience and professionalism. Also, for her potato salad.
Page vii
Introduction
Our lives have changed. Television. Drugs. Computers. All in the second half of this century. Sports have changed, too, and I don't mean money, money, money, though this seems like the most important thing of our time.
The games have changed, but so have the athletes and even the fans. Sports have grown so large that (1) it is impossible to keep up with everything anymore and (2) those who try don't seem to have time for any other life.
I am 69 years old and sports editor of The Detroit News (really, a columnist) and I come from a time when there were six teams in hockey, 16 in baseball, 12 in football and 12 in basketball. No trouble keeping up at all. Baseball ended the first week of October, football was finished with the bowl games on January 1, hockey ran until the first week of April and basketball to the middle of April. Very orderly. I liked it because the seasons were clearly definedand I mean winter, spring, summer and autumn.
Now, there are so many games in so many parts of the continent that all the sports lap over into the others and it can get very confusing. They play full scheduleslonger than everand when it is over, they tell us that that didn't counthere come the playoffs. We fall for it every year.
I used to know every player on the Montreal Canadienswhat they looked like, how they skated, how they shot, how they did everything on the ice. I even knew if they were losing their hair, not that it mattered, except it created an intimacy that added to my pleasure of watching them perform. I knew all these things because I saw the Canadiens seven times a yearmore in the playoffsand
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this helped in the enjoyment of these games. I could tell whether they were playing well or having an off night, and you could build up some real hatreds against the likes of Dickie (Ding Dong) Moore, Butch Bouchard and even Maurice Richard, who tried to tell us he was better than Gordie Howe. No way, my man. Never in history.
Expansion was inevitable because so much money was there to be made, and television made it all possible. But more hasn't been better. Only more confusing. The Montreal Canadiens now visit Detroit only once a yearthey are here and they are gone. I have no idea who plays on the first line, second line or third line, and how I long for the days when it was Elmer Lach at center, The Rocket on right wing and Toe Blake on left wing.
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