A farewell to heroes
By: Frank Graham, Jr. ; with a new foreword by W.C. Heinz.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Graham, Frank, 1925-; Graham, Frank, 1893-; Sportswriters -- United States -- Biography.; Sports -- United States -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "As the younger Frank tells more of the story, we watch Lou Gehrig take Babe Ruth's place as the Yankee's star and then trace his glorious career to its tragic conclusion. We see firsthand the legendary Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson and boxing's brief but golden age on television in the 1950s." "Aided by sixteen photographs and preserving the most masterful of his father's writing while adding to it the best of his own, Frank Graham, Jr., has given the sports fan A Farewell to Heroes, perhaps the ultimate sports reminiscence of a time when the romance of sport gave life a golden hue, when heroes still roamed the earth."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1981.
Table of contents: title: Out of Harlem; title: The endless adventure; title: I am born; title: Star reporter; title: The greatest story; title: In the dugout; title: The blood sport (I); title: The blood sport (II); title: A vanished world; title: Security blanket; title: Father and son; title: The hero; title: Fight night at the Garden; title: The champ's pal; title: The hero recaptured; title: From the mailbag; title: The road to Brooklyn; title: Prospects and snake oil; title: The creeping terror; title: Transition; title: Shoptalk; title: Madder music, stronger wine; title: Libel; title: Quixote tumbled.