I'll Play These: A Sports Writer's Life
By Bob Markus
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The athletes he interviewed and wrote about included Ali, Joe Frazier, Michael Jordan, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Roberto Clemente, Mario Andretti and Joe DiMaggio. Here are many of his best columns and stories, interspersed with the story of his own sports writing life. You'll read of the day Ali admitted to him he was afraid each time he stepped in a ring and of the tragic 1973 Indianapolis 500 in which driver Swede Savage, a good friend was killed.
And, you'll read about office politics and behind the scenes maneuvering that resulted in one man's journey from ecstasy to angst.
Bob Markus
Bob Markus spent 36 years as a sports writer and columnist for The Chicago Tribune, winning numerous awards, including a National Headliner Award as best sports columnist and three Illinois Sports Writer of the Year honors. He has been included in Who's Who in America in each of the last 25 years. A 1955 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he was a general assignment reporter and assistant state editor for the Moline (I1.) Dispatch before joining The Tribune in 1959. He and his wife of 48 years, Leslie lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and they have two daughters namely Cathy and Trish and a son Mike.
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