Red Smith on Baseball

Red Smith (1905–1982) was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was graduated from Notre Dame, and worked at newspapers in Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Philadelphia before coming to New York. His writing on sports won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award. Ira Berkow, Red Smith’s biographer, is a sports columnist for the New York Times.

If there is one diamond marriage, it has to be the one between columnist Red Smith and the game he covered for something approaching five decades.