A Farewell to Heroes - Hardcover

Graham, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670307963 ISBN 13: 9780670307968

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1981

Recalls five decades--from the 1920s to the 1960s--of sports in New York, based on the newspaper columns of sportswriter Frank Graham, Sr. and the author's personal reminiscences

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About the Author:

As a sportswriter, Frank Graham, Jr., has published four books and numerous articles for Sports Illustrated, Sport, The New Republic, Saturday Evening Post, and The New York Times Magazine. Turning later to an interest in natural history and conservation, he wrote eight more books, including Since Silent Spring, The Adirondacks, and Where the Place Called Morning Lies. He is currently a field editor for Audubon and, along with his wife, Ada, has written more than two dozen books for children.

A Farewell to Heroes is an attempt to re-create an atmosphere, to set down not a history of sports during that half century or so but a kind of dual autobiography, a very selective overview, gold-tinted perhaps but as honest as my father and I could make it, of an era that now comes dimmering up out of the mists.
—Frank Graham, Jr., from the Preface

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