@article{456455,
      recid = {456455},
      author = {Deford, Frank.},
      title = {Over time : my life as a sportswriter /},
      publisher = {Atlantic Monthly Press,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {354 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the  author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the  heroes and the characters of just about every sport in  nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962,  fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he  made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow  Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named  Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he  recounts not just the expense-account shenanigans and the  antiquated racial and sexual mores, but the professional  camaraderie and the friendships with athletes and coaches  during the "bush" years of the early NBA and the twilight  of "shamateur tennis."  In 1990, he was editor in chief of  The National Sports Daily, one of the most ambitious  projects in the history of American print journalism.  Backed by eccentric Mexican billionaire Emilio "El Tigre"  Azcarraga, The National made history and lost $150 million  in less than two years. Yet the author endured: writing ten  novels, winning a Peabody, an Emmy (not to mention his  stint as a fabled Lite Beer All-Star), and recently he read  his fifteenth-hundred commentary on NPR's Morning Edition,  which reaches millions of listeners.  This book is packed  with people and stories, including the chapters on his  visit to apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe, and his  friend's brave and tragic death. Interwoven through his  personal history, he traces the entire arc of American  sportswriting, from the lurid early days of the Police  Gazette, through sportswriters Grantland Rice and Red  Smith, and on up to ESPN.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/456455},
}