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ISBN: | 9781597978552 1597978558 9781597978545 159797854X
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Forget Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, and Jerome Holtzman. According to author Steven Travers, Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times was the greatest sports columnist who ever lived-period. Known for his highly descriptive metaphors and phrasing-a strike zone the size of Hitler's heart, so painfully honest he could spot George Washington two answers in a lie detector test, the only pitcher I know who thinks of Homer as a Greek poet and not a lucky swing by a banjo hitter-Murray was a poet. Time magazine sent the Connecticut native to Hollywood in 1948 to cover the movies. But it was at the Los An.
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Other form: | Print version: Travers, Steven. Poet. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2013] 9781597978545
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Standard no.: | 40022115239
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