The rise and fall of the press box /
The Rise and Fall of the Press Box is a personal memoir from the dean of American sports writers. Leonard Koppett draws on 60 years of observation to analyze how the stature of a national cultural phenomenon---the press box---was diminished by the onset of 20th Century technology. But more than a hi...
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Toronto :
Sport Classic Books,
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Table of Contents:
- Part One---How it started. 1. The working press
- 2. What happened to it
- 3. Giants of the golden age
- Part Two---The way it was. 4. Press box and press room
- 5. The road
- 6. Clubhouse and bench
- 7. Country clubs
- 8. League meetings and strikes
- 9. Courtrooms
- 10. The halls of Congress
- 11. Cameras and microphones
- Part Three---Personal items. 12. Childhood
- 13. KF-79 and Columbia
- 14. The ETO
- 15. Columbia again
- 16. The baseball dinner
- 17. The Broadway show league
- 18. Toots Shor's
- 19. Chairman
- 20. California
- 21. Editor emeritus
- Part Four---Professional items. 22. The New York Herald Tribune
- 23. The New York Post
- 24. The New York Times
- 25. Newspapers on strike
- 26. The Sporting News
- 27. Official scoring
- 28. The basketball scandals
- 29. The book business
- 30. The Tribune Company
- 31. Spring training
- Part Five---People. 32. Bettors
- 33. Readers
- 34. Editors
- 35. Coaches and managers
- 36. Players
- 37. Commissioners
- 38. Others
- Part Six---Teams. 39. Yankees
- 40. Giants
- 41. Dodgers
- 42. Knicks
- 43. Mets
- 44. Football Giants and Jets
- 45. Niners and Raiders
- 46. Oakland A's
- Part Seven---Games. 47. Post-season and all-star games
- 48. Football and basketball, then and now
- Racetracks
- Part Eight---Summing up. 50. Ethics and responsibilities
- 51. Styles (of writing and behavior)
- 52. Statistics
- 53. The unknown future.