Steven Oney on Bo Belinsky--Best Sports Writing

Steve Oney, writer at Los Angeles Magazine, has a piece coming out in Best American Sports Writing 2006. We asked him about it, and he replied:

The article, which originally ran in Los Angeles magazine in July 2005, tells the story of Bo Belinsky, a former Los Angeles Angel who in 1962 pitched California’s first major league no hitter at Chavez Ravine. (Most people think Sandy Koufax did this.) Belinsky was a handsome, wise-cracking playboy who dated Ann-Margret and Mamie Van Doren (among others) and set the tone for the athletes as sex symbol who followed.

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