The Great American Sports Page by John Schulian

Author:John Schulian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2019-02-27T13:07:22+00:00

ROBERT LIPSYTE

Robert Lipsyte (b. 1938) didn’t plan on staying at The New York Times when he became a copyboy there. He was a precocious nineteen-year-old Columbia University graduate who dreamed of living in California and writing novels and screenplays. He wound up on the baseball beat anyway. Then it was decided that The Times’s regular boxing writer couldn’t be wasted covering the anticipated mismatch between Sonny Liston and a motor-mouthed kid named Cassius Clay, so Lipsyte found himself thrust into one of the defining sports stories of the twentieth century. He parlayed the opportunity into a job as a columnist and became one of the leaders of a new wave that upset applecarts and inspired critical thinking. He eventually left daily journalism to write fiction and nonfiction and work in public television. But when Muhammad Ali, the former Cassius Clay, died in 2016, The Times knew whom it wanted to write his page-one obituary: Lipsyte.

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