Accidental Sportswriter

Celebrated sports journalist Robert Lipsyte--the <em>New York Times'</em> longtime lead sports columnist--mines pure gold from his long and very eventful career to bring readers a memoir like no other. An enthralling book as much about personal relationships and the culture of sports as the athletes and teams themselves <em>An Accidental Sportswriter</em> interweaves stories from Lipsyte's life and the events he covered to explore the connections between the games we play and the lives we lead. Robert Lipsyte has been there--from the Mets' first Spring Training to the fight that made Muhammad Ali an international icon to the current steroids scandals that rewired our view of sports--and in <em>An Accidental Sportswriter</em> he offers a fresh and refreshing view of the world of professional athletes as seen through the eyes of a journalist who always managed to remain independent of our jock-obsessed culture. <br />