Out of Left Field: A Sportswriter's Last Word

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Stan Isaacs (1929–2013) was a sportswriter and pioneering sports media reporter. His longtime column, “Out of Left Field,” appeared in Newsday. He is the author of Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World. Aram Goudsouzian is the Bizot Family Professor of History at the University of Memphis. He is the author of The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America.

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"Iconoclastic and irreverent, Stan Isaacs was part of a generation that bucked the sports establishment with a skepticism for authority, an appreciation for absurdity, and a gift for placing athletes and events within the context of their tumultuous times. Isaacs draws on his trademark wink-and-a-grin approach to tell the story of the long-ago Brooklyn that formed him and a career that placed him amidst the major sporting events of his era. Mixing reminiscences with column excerpts, Isaacs recalls antics like stealing a Brooklyn Dodgers pennant after the team moved to Los Angeles and his many writings on Paul Revere's horse. But Isaacs also reveals the crusading and humanist instincts that gave Black athletes like Muhammad Ali a rare forum to express their views and celebrated the oddball, unsung Mets over the straitlaced Yankees. Insightful and hilarious, Out of Left Field is the long-awaited memoir of the influential sportswriter and his adventures in the era of Jim Brown, Arthur Ashe, and the Amazin' Mets"--

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Introduction Aram Goudsouzian

A Note on Terminology

Prologue: The Shots Heard ’Round the World

1. The Chipmunks
2. Chipmunkery
3. Family Ties
4. School Daze
5. Sportswriter
6. The Daily Compass
7. A Wayward Pressman
8. Joining Newsday
9. The Early Mets
10. The Alvin Dark Controversy
11. Cassius Clay Was a Grand Old Name
12. Jim Brown and Me
13. Race Matters
14. Hitler, Stalin, and O’Malley
15. The Purloined Pennant
16. Baseball Characters
17. Olympic Hypocrisy
18. Perfect Games
19. Fighters and Writers
20. The Sporting Hemingway
21. Naked Romances
22. Mea Culpas
23. Righties and Lefties
24. Triple Threats
25. Newspaper Lore
26. Forgive Us Our Press Passes
27. Inside Stuff
28. Flights of Fancy
29. Stuntsmanship
30. Leaving Newsday
31. Life in Isaacstan
32. A Craft and a Life Index