To Absent Friends From Red Smith

Description for TO ABSENT FRIENDS FROM RED SMITH by Red Smith:

Long before Red Smith died early this year he was working on his fond farewells to almost two hundred old friends. That the author himself is absent is a sadness. But these pieces, written over a period of more than thirty years, some rewritten and/or edited by Red on Martha's Vineyard last summer, reflect his love affair with his craft and with the many people he came to know during a lifetime of covering sports. Knute Rockne, Babe Ruth, Vince Lombardi, Grantland Rice, Ted Husing, Walter O'Malley, Barney Ross, Ford Frick, Connie Mack, Mike Jacobs, Sonny Liston---they're all here, and many more. These past fifty years have seen perhaps the finest galaxy of truly great sports figures of all time, and Red covered them all.