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This is one of the strangest books I have read, as it comprises nearly two hundred tributes to dead men I have never heard of. Almost all of the deceased were professional athletes in the fields of baseball and American football, though boxers, jockeys, coaches, agents, racehorses and sports journalists all figure heavily, too. Red Smith is considered by some to be the greatest sportswriter of all time. He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1976. His newspaper columns were published for over 50 years consecutively, most notably for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times, and its these two titles for which many of the tributes in To Absent Friends were first written. I had never heard of Red Smith until this book was strongly recommended me to a writer I admire, and Im glad that I was urged in its direction, as Smiths writing is crisply descriptive, often funny, and always emotionally true. He writes sentences like this: Lefty Grove, who threw bullets past Ruth and Gehrig and the rest, stood six-foot-three and wore an expression of sulky anger stuck on top of a long, thin neck. Some of his best writing here is in tribute to his deceased colleagues, such as this: To say Damon Runyons death is a loss to his craft would be like saying breathing under water is inconvenient [...] Runyon could do things with the alphabet that made a fellow want to throw his typewriter away and go dig coal for a living.His turns of phrase frequently struck me as distinctly American in their delivery, and while I have never been a fan of either baseball or American football вЂ“ my closest exposure to both probably being through the comedic lens of early episodes of The Simpsons вЂ“ after reading this book I feel closer to both of these sports than ever before, which I think Smith would take as a compliment. It is introduced by an excellent foreword by a former colleague on the Times, Dave Anderson, and closed by a lovely note from Reds son Terence Smith, as the book was published in 1982, shortly after Reds death. As the author wrote when eulogising a friend: Dying is no big deal, the least of us will manage that. Living is the trick. This is a wonderful book that I recommend to anyone who writes for a living, as it provides fine study of the craft.
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