Hello Sports Fans!
Here’s a thread to post about your favorite sports writing
How about some intro music:
>>HORN SECTION<<You gotta be a football hero
To get along with the beautiful girls
You gotta be a touchdown getter - you bet
If you wanna get
A baby to pet
The fact that you are rich or handsome
Won’t get you anything in curls
You gotta be a football hero
To get along with the beautiful girls
https://youtu.be/TSVBhRVVd_A (Jazzy version)
Anyway, bounty and I were over on the Nature-Writing thread when the conversation morphed into a chat about baseball and all of our favorite books on that subject. So I got to thinking, what a great idea for a thread, not just baseball but sports writing in general. And not just the obvious stuff from sports desks around the world, but sports writing that is embedded in a larger work. For instance, football and ping pong is nicely handled in Winston Groom’s novel Forrest Gump.
I’ll start. Has anybody read The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent And Depraved, from the Sports Desk of Hunter S. Thompson?