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    May 16, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Secretariat's Preakness run still looks brilliant on 40th anniversary

    Secretariat was a star but not yet a legend when his van rolled up to Pimlico Race Course in the second week of May 1973. The big red horse had taken off like a rocket ship to run down the field at the Kentucky Derby, winning in less than two minutes, a...

    Tags: Equestrian, Culture, Belmont Stakes, Preakness Stakes, Pimlico

    2. Mar 30, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Five nostalgic books on baseball

    My father, Bill Guilfoile, was a baseball executive for 40 years with the New York Yankees, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was also a compulsive reader, and it's no surprise that his favorite subject was the game that has...

    Tags: Sports, Lou Gehrig, Roberto Clemente Jr., New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates

    3. Jul 28, 2012 |Column| Hartford Courant

  3. There Was Nobody Faster In 1952 Than Hartford's Lindy Remigino

    Holding two Olympic gold medals in his 81-year-old hands, Lindy Remigino breaks into laughter. The medals show their age. The stories do not. The stories never grow old.
    The Hartford Courant
    Holding two Olympic gold medals in his 81-year-old hands, Lindy Remigino breaks into laughter. The medals show their age. The stories do not. The stories never grow old. "Look at these medals, I don't even know which one is which," said Remigino, who won...

    Tags: Dallas Cowboys, National Football League, Rugby League, Sports, Dwight D. Eisenhower

    4. Oct 28, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Hollywood sports movies: Do fans love losers as much as winners?

    24 Frames
    My pals who are big sports nuts love to heap scorn on Hollywood sports movies, especially when the discussion is unfolding in a bar. Their biggest complaint? The films are squishy, full of more easy sentiment than soul, with the victories being achieved...
    5. Jun 24, 2009 |Blog| Newsday

  5. Dan Jenkins? Red Smith? Jay Mariotti? Who's No. 1?

    Watchdog
    Someone asked during my online chat Tuesday whether I thought prolific U.S. Open Twitterer Dan Jenkins is one of the top 10 sportswriters of all time. I replied by saying I am not an expert on the work of sportswriters......

    Tags: Shaquille O'Neal, U.S. Open (tennis)

    6. Mar 7, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Jim Bellows dies at 86; legendary editor of L.A. Herald Examiner

    Jim Bellows, a legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York and helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars, has died. He was 86.
    Jim Bellows, a legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York and helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars, has died. He was 86. Bellows, a longtime resident of Brentwood, died...

    Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, CBS Corp., Ku Klux Klan, News Media, Employment

    7. Jul 21, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Jerome Holtzman dies

    Jerome Holtzman, who went from copy boy to Hall of Famer in a distinguished career as a Chicago sportswriter, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 81 and was affectionately known to colleagues as "the Dean," a term reflecting his stature as a baseball-writing "lifer" and his numerous accomplishments over four decades.
    Tribune staff reporter
    Jerome Holtzman, who went from copy boy to Hall of Famer in a distinguished career as a Chicago sportswriter, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 81 and was affectionately known to colleagues as "the Dean," a term reflecting his stature as a...

    Tags: All Stars, Chicago Sun-Times, U.S. Marine Corps, Sports, Mass Media

    8. May 4, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. 'Everything They Had' by David Halberstam

    <b>Everything They Had</b> <b>Sports Writing From David Halberstam</b> <b>David Halberstam</b> <b>Hyperion: 402 pp., $24.95</b>
    Everything They Had Sports Writing From David Halberstam David Halberstam Hyperion: 402 pp., $24.95 When David Halberstam was killed in a car crash near San Francisco last spring, he'd just finished what turned out to be his final book, "The Coldest...

    Tags: National Football League, Sports, Defense, Y.A. Tittle, International Military Interventions

    9. Jan 6, 2009 |Blog| Newsday

  9. Grantland Rice, W.C. Heinz, Red Smith never blogged

    Watchdog
    Here is an interesting essay about the state of sportswriting from the Columbia Journalism Review. It was recommended by long-lost Friend of WatchDog Richard Deitsch, who is about halfway into his fellowship at Michigan, where he is trying to fix......

    Tags: Philadelphia Eagles, ESPN (tv network), Michigan

    10. Apr 15, 2004 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. The opening Opening Day

    The day the Orioles arrived in Baltimore, trolleys clanged down cobbled streets. Kids rushed to see Pinocchio at the Hippodrome. Banana boats dumped their bushels onto weathered wharves where the Inner Harbor now stands. On April 15, 1954, Baltimore...

    Tags: American League, Sports, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Baltimore Orioles

    11. Apr 26, 2001 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. Prized fighters reap rewards

    Sun Staff
    When Vincent Pettway, the handsome man and superb fighter, knocked out Italy's Gianfranco Rosi in Las Vegas on Sept. 17, 1994, he became Baltimore's first world boxing champion in more than half a century. He made headlines, logged a fair amount of mug...

    Tags: National Football League, Death, Sports, Folklore and Mythology, Middleweight Boxing

    12. May 30, 1999 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Perfect penmanship

    Tribune staff reporter
    It occurred to me that the world, or baseball, anyhow, owes Jerome Holtzman his own action figure. Being the freshly designated "official baseball historian" is all very nice, but action figures say it louder these days. Why an action figure for...

    Tags: Sports, Entertainment, Wrigley Field, John Grisham, Walter Johnson

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