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Jim Murray: Autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Sports Columnist
by
Jim Murray
"....reads like his Pulitzer Prize-winnings columns in the Los Angeles Times. Witty, compelling, stinging..". -- Dave Anderson, The New York TimesJim Murray: The Autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist met with universally stellar reviews when published in hardcover. Now available in paperback, Jim's memoir resonates with wit and wisdom. Murray began his care
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Paperback
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288 pages
Published
September 28th 1995
by MacMillan Publishing Company
(first published June 1993)
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An autobiography on the best sportswriter of all time. Everyone knows his famous sayings such as "Gentlemen, start your coffins!" when talking about the Indy 500, or "It was Kentucky's turn to use the cement mixer" when talking about Cincinati and it's lack of progress with a freeway, but how did this sportswriter become the best of all time. This is his story.
In this autobiography, Murray talks about such sports icons as Muhammad Ali, Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan, Tommy Lasorda, Mario Andretti, Mag ...more
In this autobiography, Murray talks about such sports icons as Muhammad Ali, Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan, Tommy Lasorda, Mario Andretti, Mag ...more
Jim Murray's columns in the Los Angeles Times batted home runs, hit aces, and scored knock outs as often as the athletes he loved and wrote about. He wrote about sports, and by that, the athletes, the teams, their owners, their cities, as well as the sports themselves. Here is his story about how he did it, and where it left him.
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