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A Farewell to Heroes
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Out of Harlem; The endless adventure; I am born; Star reporter; The greatest story; In the dugout; The blood sport (I); The blood sport (II); A vanished world; Security blanket; Father and son; The hero; Fight night at the Garden; The champ's pal; The hero recaptured; From the mailbag; The road to Brooklyn; Prospects and snake oil; The creeping terror; Transition; Shoptalk; Madder music, stronger wine; Libel; Quixote tumbled.

About the Author

"In what he calls this 'kind of dual autobiography,' he is his father's son, having learned to look and listen as his father did and still go his own way," says W. C. Heinz, longtime sportswriter for The New York Sun, in his new foreword to this paperback edition. As a sportswriter, Frank Graham, Jr., has published four books and numerous articles for Sports Illustrated, Sport, The New Republic, Saturday Evening Post, and The New York Times Magazine. Turning later to an interest in natural history and conservation, he wrote eight more books, including Since Silent Spring, The Adirondacks, and Where the Place Called Morning Lies. He is currently a field editor for Audubon and, along with his wife, Ada, has written more than two dozen books for children.

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"A Farewell to Heroes is an attempt to re-create an atmosphere, to set down not a history of sports during that half century or so but a kind of dual autobiography, a very selective overview, gold-tinted perhaps but as honest as my father and I could make it, of an era that now comes dimmering up out of the mists." - Frank Graham, Jr., from the Preface

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