Volume 29, Number 14 · September 23, 1982

Reds

By Wilfrid Sheed
The Red Smith Reader
edited by Dave Anderson

Random House, 308 pp., $15.95

To Absent Friends from Red Smith
by Red Smith

Atheneum, 478 pp., $17.95

Late Innings: A Baseball Companion
by Roger Angell

Simon and Schuster, 429 pp., $17.50

1947—When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball
by Red Barber

Doubleday, 367 pp., $16.95

'Hollywood,' wrote Johnny Mercer, is the place 'where you're terrific if you're even good.' But you don't have to go to Hollywood to attain this pleasant, vaguely humiliating condition; sportswriting will do.



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