Great thread! Never seen it before. I keep hearing about Robert Peterson's Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams, really want to read that. David Maraniss's Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World is a marvel of multi-dimensional lucidity, although the subtitle is off: more like the way the world was changing the Olympics. May read his bios of Lombardi and Clemente, def his latest, about Detroit. Ditto The Red Smith Reader----good?
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