Red Smith
Red Smith
Walter Wellesley Smith, was an American sportswriter who rose to become one of America's most widely read sports columnists. Smith’s journalistic career spans over five decades and his work influenced an entire generation of writers. Smith became the second sports columnist ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1976. Writing in 1989, sportswriter David Halberstam called Smith "the greatest sportswriter of the two eras."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 September 1905
CountryUnited States of America
My best girl is dead.
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.
It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.
Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.
Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.
In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.
Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.