{"product_id":"over-time-my-life-as-a-sportswriter-9780802146069","title":"Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter","description":"\u003ci\u003eOver Time: My Life as a Sportswriter\u003c\/i\u003e is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Deford joined \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e in 1962, fresh, and fresh out of Princeton. In 1990, he was Editor-in-Chief of \u003ci\u003eThe National Sports Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most ambitious--and ill-fated--projects in the history of American print journalism. But then, he's endured: writing ten novels, winning an Emmy (not to mention being a fabled Lite Beer All-Star), and last week he read something like his fourteen-hundredth commentary on NPR's \"Morning Edition.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Mad Men-like days of \u003ci\u003eSI\u003c\/i\u003e in the '60s, and the \"bush\" years of the early NBA, to Deford's visit to apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe, and his friend's brave and tragic death, \u003ci\u003eOver Time\u003c\/i\u003e is packed with intriguing people and stories. Interwoven through his personal history, Deford lovingly traces the entire arc of American sportswriting from the lurid early days of the \u003ci\u003ePolice Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e, through Grantland Rice and Red Smith and on up to ESPN. This is a wonderful, inspired book--equal parts funny and touching--a treasure for sports fans. Just like Frank Deford. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eOver Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Equal doses of self-deprecating humor and anecdotal history of American sports journalism are the essence of Frank Deford's entertaining new memoir.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Deford is the Holy Grail. He's simply one of the greatest sportswriters of all time. ... [\u003ci\u003eOver Time\u003c\/i\u003e] has a little bit of everything -- great stories about interviewing everyone from Richard Nixon ... to Jerry Jones. ... Deford played with the Harlem Globetrotters, introduced the world to Bill Bradley, really disliked Rodney Dangerfield, edited the only national sports daily in our history (\u003ci\u003eThe National\u003c\/i\u003e), and has great takes on the history and characters of \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e in its formative years. . . . Deford's the best.\"--Peter King, \u003ci\u003eSI.com\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"He sketches insightful remembrances of stars like Wilt Chamberlain and Billie Jean King and lavishes affection and admiration on \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e colleagues Andre Laguerre, Dan Jenkins, and the 'tortured' writer Mark Kram ... [Deford is] sports writing's Sinatra.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Endearing... \u003ci\u003eOver Time\u003c\/i\u003e imparts a sense of a life well lived and fully enjoyed.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The mixture of homage to sportswriters who came before him, such as Grantland Rice; sometimes wistful vignettes of sports figures like Arthur Ashe; and his own personal reflections on the evolution of sports journalism combine to offer a cultural perspective that transcends a mere job.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (Top 10 in Sports) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Deford's cred is incredible, his accolades deserved... He does not pull a punch when it comes to boxing or even to the tastes-great, less-filling Miller Lite commercials he once made... [Deford] has long been the genuine article.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A cool ride through Deford's career.\"-- \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Frank Deford is the best there is. His memoir \u003ci\u003eOver Time\u003c\/i\u003e is beautiful, funny, poignant and poetic.\" --Buzz Bissinger, author of \u003ci\u003eFriday Night Lights\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFather's Day\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A wonderful book. \u003ci\u003eOver Time\u003c\/i\u003e is both a treasure and a treasury.\"--Sally Jenkins, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e columnist and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eIt's Not About the Bike\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Frank Deford is the best sportswriter I've ever read. If there's a Mount Rushmore of sportswriting, Deford is up there, purple ties and all.\"--Tony Kornheiser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of eighteen books, Frank Deford has worked in virtually every medium. He is senior contributing writer at \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated, \u003c\/i\u003e where his byline first appeared in 1962. A weekly commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, he is also a regular correspondent on the HBO show Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. As a journalist, Deford has won the National Magazine Award for profiles, and has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters. Voted by his peers as U.S. Sportswriter of the Year six times, he was also cited by \u003ci\u003eThe American Journalism Review\u003c\/i\u003e as the nation's finest sportswriter and was twice voted Magazine Writer of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eWashington Journalism Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been presented with a Christopher Award and awards for distinguished service to journalism from the University of Missouri and Northeastern University. Deford and Red Smith are the only authors with more than one piece in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Sportswriting of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by David Halberstam. For his radio and TV work, Deford has won both an Emmy and a George Foster Peabody Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461124493586,"sku":"9780802146069","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_efde126b-8f34-4a23-bc93-ecfddec0601e.jpg?v=1730057635","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/over-time-my-life-as-a-sportswriter-9780802146069","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}