Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice

by Charles Fountain and fountain

Book Overview

"Grantland Rice was the greatest man I have known," Red Smith once wrote. "The greatest talent, the greatest gentleman." Most of Rice's contemporaries would have shared this assessment. One of the most celebrated sportswriters of all time, it was Grantland Rice who immortalized Notre Dame's outstanding 1924 backfield as "The Four Horsemen," who nicknamed Red Grange "The Galloping Ghost," and who authored one of the most frequently quoted poetic couplets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195061764
• ISBN13: 9780195061765
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Ten stars

I have no idea how this book didn't receive more attention because, this is absolutely one of the best sports related books ever written. The quotes of Mr.Rice are still alive more than 50 years after he wrote them. "When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not that you won or lost, buy how you played the game."

Great Sports History

Under an ink laden sky filled with the whites of...I read this classic. For true sports fans and fans of sports history, this is a must read. A bit fluffy, but incredibally nostalgic reading. Makes one wish they were there to read his work on an every day basis. Where is the poetry and visual writing in the columns of today? With no TV and early radio, Rice helped romantisize sports in it's heyday. No wonder they were such myths/legends.