Top of the Stack
A-Hunting We Will Go
When Doc Ellis said he was going to mow down the Cincinnati Reds he wasn’t kidding.
The Front Page
Down and Out in the Minor Leagues
“We never win any ball games but we have some interesting discussions.”
I Was a Champion
“I used to think if I ever won the title the hardest part would be over. When you’re just one of the pack you want what somebody else has, but when you win the title everybody wants what you have.“
Hot Chicago
Ain’t no half-Steppin’.
Angry Young Man with a Horn
“It doesn’t matter how a musician spent his vacation or who his wife is or how many times he was beat up. You need to hear how it gets expressed in the music. My life is manifested in my art. Listen to the music, man.”
Kiss ’n’ Kill
Star 80 and the death of a centerfold.
R.I.P. The Best American Sports Writing
The end of an era.
Diana Ross: An Encounter in Three Scenes
What Becomes a Legend Most?
Shooting To Win
Photographers have different wiring inside their brains. They see and measure things very differently from those who write, and expose themselves to greater peril.
Shelley Winters: “Wait A Minute—Where Am I?”
“I don’t feel that when people pay $5 for a movie ticket, all they’re entitled to is what I give them on the screen.”
The Man Who Wasn’t There
The King of Late Night.
The Making of An American Swami
Sally Kempton’s Second Act.
A Miracle of Faith
Carol Leland was looking for a sign. Her body battered and broken, she needed to know that her suffering wasn’t in vain. And that her God had not abandoned her.