Newspaper article

By: Red Smith

Date: September 30, 1934

Source: Smith, Red. "Dizzy Dean's Day." The St. Louis Star, September 30, 1934. Reprinted in Smith, Red. The Red Smith Reader. Dave Anderson, ed. New York: Random House, 1982, 137–140.

About the Author: Walter "Red" Smith (1905–1982) began his sportswriting career in St. Louis. He eventually moved to the Philadelphia Record, New York Herald Tribune, and, finally, to The New York Times. There he wrote a column four times a week, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1976. He was a lifetime newspaperman, who covered a wide range of sports, from baseball to boxing to horse racing to fishing. By the time he died, he was widely considered America's preeminent sportswriter.

Introduction

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