How Life Imitates the World Series; An Inquiry Into The Game

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1982. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. ix, [3], 296, [3] pages. Illustrations. Some wear to DJ edges. Some sunning to the spine. Thomas M. Boswell (born October 11, 1947, in Washington, D.C.) is a retired American sports columnist. Boswell spent his entire career at the Washington Post, joining it shortly after graduating from Amherst College in 1969. He became a Post columnist in 1984. Writing primarily about baseball, he is credited with inventing the total average statistic. In 1994, he appeared several times in the Ken Burns series Baseball, sharing insightful commentary into the history of America's national pastime; he appeared again in "The Tenth Inning," Burns' 2010 extension of the series. In addition to the Post, he has written for Esquire, GQ, Playboy and Inside Sports. He also makes frequent television appearances. On October 19, 2020, Boswell announced in his Washington Post column that he would not be covering the World Series for the first time since 1975. The 72-year-old Boswell cited health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that it was too risky for someone at his age to make the trip. Boswell pointed out in his column that at the time, the 1975 World Series was considered the greatest World Series ever played, largely due to the dramatic game six that ended with Carlton Fisk?s historic home run. The drama of the series convinced him to remain a journalist with the Post and, in his column, he speculates ?Where would I be today if Fisk?s ball had gone foul?? On May 7, 2021, Boswell announced that he would be retiring at the end of June 2021 in a column in The Washington Post. This series of short essays covers Reggie Jackson, Pete Rose, Tommy John, Rod Carew, the art of the spitball, the Big Bang Theory of run scoring, and Earl Weaver, among many other topics. George F. Will termed Boswell "the thinking person's writer about the thinking person's sport."