Full Swing: Hits, Runs, and Errors in a Writer's Life

The path from Springfield Avenue on Chicago’s West Side—where Ira Berkow once sold stockings at the old Maxwell Street marketplace—to a career at The New York Times and a share of the Pulitzer Prize was anything but predictable. Yet that is the remarkable journey Berkow recounts in this lively, heartfelt, and frequently humorous memoir. Along the way, he became far more than a sportswriter, emerging as one of America’s most perceptive chroniclers of sports, equally drawn to human character ...