Dispatches from the Sporting Life

by RICHLER, MORDECAI

• ISBN13: 9780676975529
• ISBN10: 0676975526
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-28
• Publisher: Knopf Canada

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