The Poet: The Life and Los Angeles Times of Jim Murray
“Comedian Fred Allen said that California was a great place to live if you’re an orange. It also became a great place if you loved prose told by a man who knew, to paraphrase Churchill, that words are bullets the writer uses as ammunition. That man was Jim Murray. As Steven Travers recounts, Murray moved sports’ media center to the West Coast. He also moved beyond balls and strikes into business, politics, and culture, using language as beautifully as Jascha Heifetz played a violin.”—Curt Smith, author ofVoices of the Game: The Acclaimed Chronicle of Baseball Radio and Television BroadcastingandPull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story