Baseball is America's national pastime and the intellectuals' favourite sport. It is a game with a long and colourful history, and hence a natural subject for an anecdotes book. This brings together stories from reliable historical sources, anecdotes gleaned from interviews, and some obvious tall ta[...]
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America's favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.
From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel tha[...]
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was the most widely read sportswriter of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the "New York Herald Tribune" and later for "The New York Times" traversed the world of sp[...]