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The Poetic, Bombastic, Brilliant Art Of Old-School Sports Writing

WORDS Posted: April 25, 2019 8:04 am

“The brilliant hard-boiled lyricism of Sandy Grady, in 1964, as he watches a crowd of Phillies fans after a home loss: ‘They hit the sidewalk with tight mouths, like people who had seen a train hit a car.’ Or Joe Palmer, in 1951, summoning a vision of the racehorse Man o’ War in motion: ‘Great chunks of sod sailed up behind the lash of his power.'” – The Atlantic

WORDS Published: 05.19

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