Jim Murray, the dean of American sportswriters, entertained readers
with writing that is so good and so funny that even people who
don't like sports read him. "The Jim Murray Reader" gathers some of
Murray's best columns from the height of his career and showcases
the wit and the style that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1990.
His inexhaustible talent and limitless range are on full display
here: from the perplexities of tennis scoring ("a game in which
love counts for nothing, deuces are wild, and the scoring system
was invented by Lewis Carroll") and baseball rules ("The infield
fly rule is about as simple as calligraphy. It might as well be a
Japanese naval code") to Murray's Laws ("The way to make a line
move faster is to join the other one") and many of his colorful
profiles ("Richard Petty has climbed in more windows than 50 car
thieves. . . . He wasn't born, he was assembled and modified"). His
striking images, evocative prose, and hyperbolic one-liners have
made Murray one of the most quotable and most celebrated sports
columnists of the twentieth century.
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