The Sports Biblio Digest will return soon
I’m starting out 2019 reading books by, and about, Howard Cosell and high school wrestling in Iowa that I'll be featuring here soon.
The full newsletter will be resuming shortly, including a winter-spring new sports book list. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact me at sportsbiblio@gmail.com.
In the meantime, I’d like to share a few links collected over the holidays and as we rolled into 2019.
NYRB: The soccer politics of Mexico;
Dezeen: Top 10 stadiums and sports centres of 2018;
City Journal: A defense of the Division I athletic scholarship;
LV Review-Journal: Boxing writer Royce Feour dies at 79;
La Vida Baseball: Clemente biographer David Maraniss;
The Nation: Rest in Power, Ali documentarian Bill Siegel;
NYT: For Women, a Year of Stunning Deeds and Wrenching Moments;
Arkansas Times: Jim Bailey, sportswriting legend, dies at 86;
The Irish Times: Is this the academy of dreams or exploitation?;
USA Today: One scout’s journey to get back into baseball;
The Atlantic: The weight I carry;
SI: Todd Marinovich is learning to be human again;
The Ringer: Don’t forget Jordan McNair.
Whatever’s on your bookshelf, Happy Reading! Hope your 2019 is off to a great start!
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This is Digest issue No. 151, published Jan. 13, 2019.
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