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Jim Murray : The Last of the Best

Jim Murray was to sports writing what Frank Sinatra, Pablo Picasso, and Mikail Baryshnikov were to their endeavors: Simply the best of their generation.

The syndicated columnist for The Los Angeles Times since 1961 was one of only four sportswriters to have won the Pulitzer Prize and was named national sportswriter of the year 14 times, 12 of them in succession.

But his colleagues say he didn't write about sports. Rather, he wrote about people and their efforts, achievements, passions, and failures. And he did it so well that it wasn't sportswriting; it was literature.

Here are 90 of Jim's last columns, all written in the 1990s. They truly are "The Last of the Best."

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 334
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781883792503
  • Genres
  • sports, journalism
  • Release date
  • 1998