num_pages: 288
description: Over My Life as a Sportswriter is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Defords 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 hes 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 NPRs Morning Edition.From the Mad Men-like days of SI in the 60s and the bush years of the early NBA to Defords visit to apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe and his friends 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.
language: English
title: Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press