A Sportswriter's Life: From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter

by Gerald Eskenazi

In 1959, Gerald Eskenazi dropped out of City College, not for the first time, and made his way to the New York Times . That day the paper had two openings--one in news and one in sports. Eskenazi was offered either for thirty-eight dollars a week. He chose sports based on his image of the sports department as a cozier place than the news department. Forty-one years and more than eighty-four hundred stories later, New Yorkers know he made the right...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826219586
• ISBN13: 9780826219589
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher