No Cheering in the Press Box
- ISBN-10
- 0805038248
- ISBN-13
- 9780805038248
- Category
- Sportswriters
- Pages
- 363
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Henry Holt
- Author
- Jerome Holtzman
Description
Interviews eighteen of the writers who dominated sports reporting in the interwar period, including Dan Daniel, Paul Gallico, Red Smith, Marshall Hunt, and John Kieran
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