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Costs Littlefield (NPR's Only a Game) presents the second installment in the Collection of America series specialized in classic North american sportswriters, a definitive collector's release of the pathbreaking copy writer who developed the long-form sports activities report. Like his friend and admirer Red Smith, W. C. Heinz (1915-2008) was one of the most distinctive and important sportswriters of the previous hundred years. Though he started his profession as a publication reporter, Heinz soon transferred beyond the confines of the daily column, turning freelance and becoming the first sportwriter to make his living writing for periodicals. In doing so, he effectively developed the long-form sports activities story, perfecting a style that paved just how for the New Journalism of the 1960s. His information of the very best sports athletes of his day still feel incredibly current, written with a freshness of understanding, a present for characterization, and a finely tuned hearing for dialogue. Jimmy Breslin known as Heinz's "Brownsville Bum" - a brief life of Al "Bummy" Davis, Brooklyn street hard and onetime welterweight champion of the world - "the greatest magazine sports report I've ever before read, bar nothing". His free and powerful 1949 column, "Death of any Competition Horse", has been called a literary old classic, a work of quality and precision comparable to Hemingway at his best. Now, because of this essential writer's centennial, Costs Littlefield, the number of NPR's Only a Game, presents the fundamental Heinz: 38 columns, information, and memoirs from the author's personal archive, including 18 items never gathered during his life time. Though Heinz's great enthusiasm was boxing - the golden period of Rocky Graziano, Floyd Patterson, and Sugar Ray Robinson - his passions prolonged to the large world of sports activities, with indelible information of baseball players (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio), jockeys (George Woolf, Eddie Arcaro), hockey players, basketball coaches, scouts and coaches, and rodeo riders.
