Quick note: Thanks to the early morning readers who alerted me to the fact that I called Kornheiser, Simmons and Torre irrelevant instead of irreverent. It's been fixed for the second edition.
Tony Kornheiser's columns in the Washington Post during the 1980's were always must-reads. He along Michael Wilbon, Thomas Boswell, Dave Kindred, in addition to an occasional column from the retired dean of the Post's sports page, Shirley Povich, produced a Murder's Row of columnists throughout the decade. Under the tutelage of sports editor, George Solomon, such luminaries as John Feinstein, Richard Justice, Dave Aldridge, David DuPree, Anthony Cotton, et. al. were all part of that great staff then. (The New Yorker's current ME, David Remnick, even made a brief appearance in that sports dept. before eventually being named the newspaper's Moscow Bureau Chief.)
Speaking of Povich, here's his hall-of-fame-worthy lede from Don Larson's perfect WS game. "The million-to-one shot came in. Hell froze over. A month of Sunday's hit the calendar. Don Larson today pitched a no-hit, no-run, no-man-reach-first base in a World Series game.
Quick note: Thanks to the early morning readers who alerted me to the fact that I called Kornheiser, Simmons and Torre irrelevant instead of irreverent. It's been fixed for the second edition.
Tony Kornheiser's columns in the Washington Post during the 1980's were always must-reads. He along Michael Wilbon, Thomas Boswell, Dave Kindred, in addition to an occasional column from the retired dean of the Post's sports page, Shirley Povich, produced a Murder's Row of columnists throughout the decade. Under the tutelage of sports editor, George Solomon, such luminaries as John Feinstein, Richard Justice, Dave Aldridge, David DuPree, Anthony Cotton, et. al. were all part of that great staff then. (The New Yorker's current ME, David Remnick, even made a brief appearance in that sports dept. before eventually being named the newspaper's Moscow Bureau Chief.)
Speaking of Povich, here's his hall-of-fame-worthy lede from Don Larson's perfect WS game. "The million-to-one shot came in. Hell froze over. A month of Sunday's hit the calendar. Don Larson today pitched a no-hit, no-run, no-man-reach-first base in a World Series game.