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"My idol growing up, all I wanted to be, was Stan Isaacs." --Tony Kornheiser "Stan Isaacs is directly responsible for my television career--and much of how I approached what I've said and whom I've said it about." --Keith Olbermann
Iconoclastic and irreverent, Stan Isaacs was part of a generation that bucked the sports establishment with a skepticism for authority, an appreciation for absurdity, and a gift for placing athletes and events within the context of their tumultuous times. Isaacs draws on his trademark wink-and-a-grin approach to tell the story of the long-ago Brooklyn that formed him and a career that placed him amidst the major sporting events of his era. Mixing reminiscences with column excerpts, Isaacs recalls antics like stealing a Brooklyn Dodgers pennant after the team moved to Los Angeles and his many writings on Paul Revere's horse. But Isaacs also reveals the crusading and humanist instincts that gave Black athletes like Muhammad Ali a rare forum to express their views and celebrated the oddball, unsung Mets over the straitlaced Yankees.
Insightful and hilarious, Out of Left Field is the long-awaited memoir of the influential sportswriter and his adventures in the era of Jim Brown, Arthur Ashe, and the Amazin' Mets.
Contents
Introduction Aram Goudsouzian
A Note on Terminology
Prologue: The Shots Heard 'Round the World
The Chipmunks
Chipmunkery
Family Ties
School Daze
Sportswriter
The Daily Compass
A Wayward Pressman
Joining Newsday
The Early Mets
The Alvin Dark Controversy
Cassius Clay Was a Grand Old Name
Jim Brown and Me
Race Matters
Hitler, Stalin, and O'Malley
The Purloined Pennant
Baseball Characters
Olympic Hypocrisy
Perfect Games
Fighters and Writers
The Sporting Hemingway
Naked Romances
Mea Culpas
Righties and Lefties
Triple Threats
Newspaper Lore
Forgive Us Our Press Passes
Inside Stuff
Flights of Fancy
Stuntsmanship
Leaving Newsday
Life in Isaacstan
A Craft and a Life
Index
