John Scheibe does an outstanding job of telling the story of an incredibly rich period in the history of American sports. --Jack Corrigan, author of Warning Track and announcer for the Colorado Rockies
Scheibe brings to life some of the most memorable sporting events of all time, including the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics and the 1979 World Series. --Marlin Keesler, author of Our Life on the Ru
The pages of this book echo with the glories of athletes such as Reggie Jackson, Magic Johnson, Roger Staubach, Tom Lasorda and horse trainer Laz Barerra and especially of the man who wrote such brilliant profiles of these sports stars. --Sam Moffie, author of Swap
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INSIGHTS FROM A BLIND SPORTSWRITER. At the height of his career, Jim Murray who had been named national sportswriter of the year 13 times, and was a Pulitzer Prize winner and a syndicated columnist at the Los Angeles Times suddenly went blind. Plunged into darkness, he had to find a way to write his column, which was printed five days a week and syndicated in more than 200 newspapers. He had to do this without being able to see the game he was covering, the person he was interviewing or most importantly the words he was writing. Urged on by his wife, Gerry, Murray found a way to write his column: through the eyes of an inexperienced yet enthusiastic copyboy. Enter John Scheibe, whose On the Road With Jim Murray: Baseball and the Summer of 79 tells the extraordinary story of his collaboration with an extraordinary man and one of the most remarkable twists of fate in sportswriting history.
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