Sporstwriter Paul Zimmerman's Favorite Lede
MMQB's "Dr. Z Week" continues with excerpts from Zimmerman's unpublished memoirs.
“Dr. Z Week” continues at website MMQB.com and boy, what a treat one of today’s entries is. We’re talking excerpts from titanic one-time Sports Illustrated football writer Paul Zimmerman’s unpublished memoirs.
There’s much to savor here, starting with this tip of the hat from Dr. Z to New York Sun columnist Frank Graham:
I grew up with this kind of stuff. It was my English Lit seminar, my exploration into the classics. Graham, again, covering the Max Baer–Tony Galento fight in Jersey City in 1940, and I would have to call this my favorite lede:
‘They rolled the clock back last night and two cuckoos jumped out.’
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