Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter - Brossura

The author of eighteen books, Frank Deford has worked in virtually every medium. He is senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated, where his byline first appeared in 1962. A weekly commentator for NPR's "Morning Edition," he is also a regular correspondent on the HBO show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel." As a journalist, Deford has won the National Magazine Award for profiles, and has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters. Voted by his peers as U.S. Sportswriter of the Year six times, he was also cited by The American Journalism Review as the nation's finest sportswriter and was twice voted Magazine Writer of the Year by the Washington Journalism Review. He has been presented with a Christopher Award and awards for distinguished service to journalism from the University of Missouri and Northeastern University. Deford and Red Smith are the only authors with more than one piece in The Best American Sportswriting of the Century, edited by David Halberstam. For his radio and TV work, Deford has won both an Emmy and a George Foster Peabody Award.

"Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter" is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford s remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Deford joined "Sports Illustrated" in 1962, fresh, and fresh out of Princeton. In 1990, he was Editor-in-Chief of "The National Sports Daily," one of the most ambitiousand ill-fatedprojects in the history of American print journalism. But then, he s endured: writing ten novels, winning an Emmy (not to mention being a fabled Lite Beer All-Star), and last week he read something like his fourteen-hundredth commentary on NPR s Morning Edition. From the Mad Men-like days of "SI" in the 60s, and the bush years of the early NBA, to Deford s visit to apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe, and his friend s brave and tragic death, "Over Time" is packed with intriguing people and stories. Interwoven through his personal history, Deford lovingly traces the entire arc of American sportswriting from the lurid early days of the "Police Gazette," through Grantland Rice and Red Smith and on up to ESPN. This is a wonderful, inspired bookequal parts funny and touchinga treasure for sports fans. Just like Frank Deford. Praise for "Over Time" Equal doses of self-deprecating humor and anecdotal history of American sports journalism are the essence of Frank Deford's entertaining new memoir. "Chicago Tribune" Deford is the Holy Grail. He's simply one of the greatest sportswriters of all time. ... ["Over Time"] has a little bit of everything -- great stories about interviewing everyone from Richard Nixon to Jerry Jones. Deford played with the Harlem Globetrotters, introduced the world to Bill Bradley, really disliked Rodney Dangerfield, edited the only national sports daily in our history ("The National"), and has great takes on the history and characters of "Sports Illustrated" in its formative years. . . . Deford's the best. Peter King, "SI.com" He sketches insightfu