Dispatches from the Sporting Life

by Mordecai Richler

• ISBN13: 9781585743230
• ISBN10: 1585743232
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

Witty and perceptive essays by a sports-obsessed world-renowned novelist

Author Biography

Mordecai Richler wrote ten novels and numerous screenplays, essays, children's books and several works of non-fiction, During his career, he was the recipient of dozens of literary awards, including two Governor General's Awards, the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada a few months before his death on July 3, 2001

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Noah Richler
An Incompleat Angler's Journal	1	(18)
Jews in Sports	19	(24)
A Real Canadian Success Story	43	(14)
With the Trail Smoke Eaters in Stockholm	57	(12)
Safari	69	(16)
You Know Me, Ring	85	(8)
Writers and Sports	93	(12)
Gretzky in Eighty-five	105	(16)
From Satchel, through Hank Greenberg, to El Divino Loco	121	(8)
Eddie Quinn	129	(12)
Cheap Skates	141	(8)
Maxie	149	(8)
Paper Lion	157	(10)
Gordie	167	(20)
Pete Rose	187	(8)
Kiss the Ump!	195	(8)
Soul on Ice	203	(8)
From Gladu, through Kitman, to the Victoire Historique and After	211	(30)
The Fall of the Montreal Canadiens	241	(34)
Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath---An Excerpt from	275	(16)
St. Urbain's Horseman
Permissions	291