An American tragedy
A death without sunlight: Jackie Robinson Jr. / Esquire, November 1971 part 2
When Eisenhower reigned
Joe Black's odyssey / New York Herald Tribune, June 8, 1952
What white big leaguers really think of Negro players / Our sports, June 1953
The twilight of the gods / Sports Illustrated, September 20, 1954
Baseball 1954 / Sports Illustrated, October 4, 1954
Here's tap day / Sports Illustrated, November 22, 1954
Forget something, boys? / Sports Illustrated, December 20, 1954
New York proudly presents / Sports Illustrated, September 27, 1954
1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . & bingo / Sports Illustrated, October 11, 1954
Glory day in Columbus / Sports Illustrated, November 29, 1954
Alonzo, Alonzo / Sports Illustrated, January 10, 1955
Big Newk and his psyche / Sport, August 1955
Early Wynn: the story of a hard loser / Sport, March 1956
The Boswells of baseball / The Nation, September 7, 1957
Stan Musial is baseball's no. 1 citizen / Sport, February 1958
Little Nellie's a man now / Sport, April 1958
Rookie of the year [fiction] / Cosmopolitan, June 1958
How the other half lives / Sport, October 1958
The crucial part fear plays in sport / Sport, August 1959
Changing times
The benching of a legend / Sports Illustrated, September 12, 1960
Success and Ned Irish /Sports Illustrated, March 27, 1961
Baseball's secret weapon: terror / Sports Illustrated, July 10, 1961
Pursuit of no. 60: the ordeal of Roger Maris / Sports Illustrated, October 2, 1961
Robert Frost: a reminiscence / The Nation, February 9, 1963
The time of the hustler / Show Magazine, October 1963
Getting closer
Writing sports / Esquire, August 1970
The life and hard times of Jim Bouton / Esquire, December 1970
The Mick / Esquire, May 1971
Roy Emerson / Esquire, June 1971
Bob Gibson / Esquire, July 1971
Scuba diving /Esquire, January 1974
A shrine in Brooklyn / Sports Illustrated, August 5, 1974
Cheer, cheer for old Ezra Pound / Esquire, November 1974
The good and bad times of Don King / Esquire, November 1975
George Foreman is down but not out / Esquire, May 1976
Aspects of the game / Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1976
A baseball sketchbook / Sports Illustrated, August 23, 1976
Golden triumphs, tarnished dreams / Sports Illustrated, August 30, 1976
Walter O'Malley in the sunshine / New York Times, January 9, 1978
Some modest proposals / New York Times, February 13, 1978
The joy of Bill Veeck / New York Times, April 3, 1978
Public relations / New York Times, July 31, 1978
Jim Lonborg at thirty-seven / New York Times, April 2, 1979
A visit with Red Smith / Notre Dame Magazine, December 1979
My movie option: eight years of strikeouts / New York Times, May 4, 1980
Lafleur (the flower of Canada) / Sport, December 1981
Dodger verities span the seasons / New York Times, October 6, 1985
A new millennium
Joe Black, 1924-2002: hard thrower, soft heart / Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2002
Scorecard: mind over batter / Sports Illustrated, December 8, 2003
A few moments with TSW / Boston Red Sox Magazine, June 2007
Clem / an original story.