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Halberstam understood true meaning of sport
For far too many people, sports is primarily about one thing, if not one thing only, and here's that thing: Balls.
Call it courage, call it guts, or, as too many misguided commentators tend to,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], label it manliness. James,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whose Beyond a Boundary is a sublime, highly readable social study that just happens to be about cricket in Trinidad.
Oh, and let's not forget the occasional ex-athlete,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like Ken Dryden,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whose The Game remains the finest book ever written on hockey.
Certainly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], much of the very best of the best writing on the sports literature book shelf was produced by Halberstam.
He wrote movingly and memorably about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry in The Summer of '49; captured the human complexity of a season with a failing NBA franchise in The Breaks of the Game; and delved deeply into the pursuit of the Olympic dream in The Amateurs, a book on rowing. White as one of his models,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], would say that sport is part of the record of our times and was as worthy a subject of study as any other.
Both Smith and Murray won Pulitzer Prizes; both let the real world live and breathe in their daily writing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Their format was the daily column; Halberstam's was the book, hefty tomes constructed using a reportorial method that could only be called total immersion.
There was pure delight in his pages, such as the portrait of basketball player Billy Ray Bates, an athlete from dirt-poor beginnings,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who played for the flailing Portland Trail Blazers that Halberstam wrote about in The Breaks of the Game.
Halberstam describes the unaffected Bates chatting up Calvin Natt about being poor,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], sure,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but always having two kinds of meat on the table at home.
Two kinds of meat?
"Oh, you know, coon,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], possum, rabbit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], squirrel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Bates responds. The quirky Blackmon character was played by the man who wrote and directed the movie -- Spike Lee.
There was profound humanity in Halberstam's The Teammates, a study of the lifelong friendship among Red Sox mates Ted Williams,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio.
While Halberstam's death is an irreplaceable loss to journalism,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his work in sports remains an important and rich trove of writing that will reward reading and re-reading for years to come.
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