When sports writers could write

[stephenPE]

I found a book called Best Sports Stories 1973. The year I grad. from HS.
A good one about player reps being boycotted. Reminded me of the Kap thing.
Great story about Jerry West and that first Lakers title. An Ali fight with George Chuvalo.
Chuvalo was a baddasss. But the best was at the end of the book. Low and behold
there was Tom McEwen. with this lead in to his story: Over you sliced Georgia peaches (they're in season now)w with cream and sugar, two slices of French toast heavy with egg, sprinkled powder sugar and maple syrup atop, two slices of Canadian bacon, cold milk, coffee, then a mouth-cleansing plum (they're in, too) , this drama at breakfast:
Now I realize where some of my quirks come from. But more than that the book is full of real
gems, written by guys that could observe and write instead of what passes now for sports stories.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

I grew up in the TB area with Mizell writing for the Times and McEwen writing for the Trib. Nobody had it better.

 

[Chomper]

I grew up in the TB area with Mizell writing for the Times and McEwen writing for the Trib. Nobody had it better.

You are so right. Not only did I grow up in TB area, but when I was a student at UF I had a job as sports stringer for the Trib working for and with Tom McEwen and Jim Selman. That was in the days when sports writers were real writers. Tom McEwen was one the best ever and the time I spent as his assistant was priceless.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

You are so right. Not only did I grow up in TB area, but when I was a student at UF I had a job as sports stringer for the Trib working for and with Tom McEwen and Jim Selman. That was in the days when sports writers were real writers. Tom McEwen was one the best ever and the time I spent as his assistant was priceless.

Bet you have some dandy stories...

 

[78]

I grew up in the TB area with Mizell writing for the Times and McEwen writing for the Trib. Nobody had it better.

McEwen had the contacts, Mizell the better writing ability. They were both good men.

 

[The Shady Grove Gator]

F Dooley!