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050 00 $aGV742.42.E75$bA3 2003
082 00 $a070.4/49796/092$aB$222
100 1 $aEskenazi, Gerald.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79126813
245 12 $aA sportswriter's life :$bfrom the desk of a New York times reporter /$cGerald Eskenazi.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $ax, 207 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSports and American culture series
505 0 $aThe written word -- The end of reporting as we know it -- Tricks of the trade -- Dealing with icons -- The women -- Present at the creation -- The electronic village -- The craft (or is it art?) of writing -- The press of a button -- Last call for Brooklyn -- Northern exposure -- Stories that readers only knew the half of -- Money -- On the road, from po' boys to chateaubriand -- Do-overs -- Deep ghost.
520 1 $a"In 1959, Gerald Eskenazi dropped out of City College, not for the first time and made his way to the New York Times. That day the paper had two openings - one in news and one in sports, Eskenazi was offered either for thirty-eight dollars a week. He chose sports based on his image of the sports department as a cozier place than the news department. Forty-one years and and more than eighty-four hundred stories later, New Yorkers know he made the right decision." "When Eskenazi started reporting, sports journalism had a different look than it does today. There was a camaraderie between the reporters and the players due in part to the reporters deference to these famous figures. Unlike today, journalists stayed out of the locker rooms, and didn't ask questions about the players' home lives or their feelings about matters other than the sports that they played. In A Sportswriter's Life, Eskenazi details how much sports and America have changed since then. His anecdotes regarding famous and infamous sports figures from the baseball great Joe DiMaggio to boxer Mike Tyson illustrate the transformation that American culture and journalist have undergone in the past fifty years." "Eskenazi gives a behind-the-scenes look into the journalistic techniques that go into crafting a story as well as the pitfalls reporters fall into. There are cautionary tales of journalistic excess, as well as a moments of triumph such as the time Eskenazi got Joe Namath to open up to him by admitting he was a sportswriter who knew nothing about football. Along the way Eskenazi discusses interviewing other reluctant subjects and writing under the intense pressure of a deadline." "A Sportswriter's Life is a revealing look at the people and events that were part of the history of sports from a perspective usually unavailable to the public. Eskenazi's inside stories of sports are not always flattering, but they are always amusing, touching, and revealing. This entertaining volume will be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in reporting sports, or just a good story."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aEskenazi, Gerald.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79126813
650 0 $aSportswriters$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112211
650 0 $aSports journalism$zUnited States$xAuthorship.
830 0 $aSports and American culture series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001089990
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip049/2003022016.html
852 00 $boff,jou$hGV742.42.E75$iA3 2003