No cheering in the press box
By: recorded and edited by Jerome Holtzman.
Contributors: Holtzman, Jerome.
Edition: 1st rev. ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Sportswriters -- United States -- Biography.
Description: Paul Gallico, Shirley Povich, Ford Frick, Red Smith, Jimmy Cannon and 20 other sportwriters who were active in what the author refers to as the Golden Age of Sports--the time between the two world wars--give readers their reminiscences and opinions in this earthy, gossipy, often hilarious (New York Times) collection.
Notes: "An Owl book"--P. [4] of cover.
"Newly revised and expanded."
First-person accounts by sportswriters, recorded 1971-1973.