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George Vecsey

American Author

Baseball Fans Game People Sports World

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

In New York, I run into Packers fans who have never lived in Wisconsin, Canadiens fans who have never lived in La Belle Province, Celtics fans who admire Russell and Bird and Pierce but have no trace of a Boston accent. George Vecsey

Having been aware of the Red Sox since the 1946 World Series, having been growled at by Ted Williams as a young reporter in 1960, having been present at the horror of 1986 and the comeback of 2004, I have seen the highs and lows of some other people's favorite team. George Vecsey

People World Comeback Seen Young Other Favorite Williams Some Horror Having Red Highs Since Red Sox Been Reporter Sox Lows Team Series Aware Present World Series Ted Ted Williams

Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - count 'em, 11 - N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics. George Vecsey

College Honors Athletes Russell Boston Count Never Most America Personal Gold Gold Medal Titles Much Successful Bill Meant Medal Olympic Championships Olympic Gold Olympic Gold Medal

I say the Islanders were the best team I ever covered because they had more so many stars who delivered with Canadian-Swedish-suburban modesty. And they won four straight Stanley Cups from 1980 through 1983. George Vecsey

Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network's schedule. George Vecsey

Weary Result Matter Men Mandatory Resort Indefinitely Television Run Must Minutes Network Schedule Badly How Go Shootouts Just Anymore After Cannot Skates Soccer Players

When I was working on the unauthorized biography 'Stan Musial: An American Life,' which came out in 2011, old opponents recalled how Musial knew their names after they had been in the majors only a few days. George Vecsey

FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away. George Vecsey

You Hear Goes Want FIFA Then Your Eventually Away Ear

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite. George Vecsey

World Thought Seen First Teammates Lying Bite Broke Eye Kind Collision Guy Dirty Outside He Contact Dead French First World His Goalkeeper Cup German Any Just Elbows Ground Foul World Cup Play Level

I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them. George Vecsey

Many American players - Paul Caligiuri, Claudio Reyna, Eric Wynalda, Kasey Keller, Tony Sanneh, Michael Bradley and Steve Cherundolo, just a partial list - have sought the income and challenge of Germany. George Vecsey

Challenge Partial Steve Sought Eric Michael Germany American List Just Paul Many Income Keller Players Tony

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did. George Vecsey

Future Sports Kind Column Did May Much

In that prehistoric time, before the Internet, before information floated in the ozone, I was a soccer novice who had never heard of Socrates until somebody pointed him out - swarthy, shaggy, tall, slender, mysterious. George Vecsey

I know, I know - men have that extra hero gene in their foolish makeup; it's part of our charm. But I happen to know some women who have their inner sports hero, too. George Vecsey

Sports Women Hero Men Extra Too Our Some Gene Charm Foolish Part Know Makeup Happen Who Inner

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan. George Vecsey

Love History Way Boston Park Red Red Sox Am Sox Fan

When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read. George Vecsey

Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team. George Vecsey

Stars Tried Seems Exception Never Highest Highest Level Come Most Reached Greatest Least Managers Where Successful Coach Coaches Team Who Many Level Players Basketball

Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories. George Vecsey

Good Memories Fans Sick Pennant Races

As my wife will attest, I do not shop casually. George Vecsey

Wife Will Casually Attest Shop

Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left. George Vecsey

Grass Blade Most Make Sound Left Beijing Descriptions

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