American Sportswriters: A Biographical Dictionary

Sportswriting has often been overlooked in histories of journalism, much as it was slighted by newspaper managements in the early and middle 20th century. This book endeavors to remedy that oversight, presenting a concise general history of American sportswriting as well as detailed profiles of hundreds of practitioners of the trade.

Covering such subjects as journalistic ethics, women writers and sports journalists of color, as well as the decline of objective sports journalism in the ag...