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[Gallico] is one of that small circle of writers who are the despair of the rest of us pedestrians; he cannot be dull. . . . Whether he is discussing Mildred [Babe] Didrikson or Primo Carnera or the race question in sport,he is always entertaining.John R. Tunis, Saturday Review of Literature -- Saturday Review of Literature (03/25/2008)

[Gallico] is one of that small circle of writers who are the despair of the rest of us pedestrians; he cannot be dull. . . . Whether he is discussing Mildred [Babe] Didrikson or Primo Carnera or the race question in sport, he is always entertaining. --John R. Tunis, Saturday Review of Literature

[Farewell to Sport] debunked professional wrestling and decried discrimination against black athletes and the hypocrisy of amateurism. -Molly Ivins, New York Times| A high-colored panorama of thirteen years of sport, a summing up of the success and sob stories. -New York Review of Books| [Gallico] is one of that small circle of writers who are the despair of the rest of us pedestrians; he cannot be dull... Whether he is discussing Mildred [Babe] Didrikson or Primo Carnera or the race question in sport,he is always entertaining. -John R. Tunis, Saturday Review of Literature

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Paul Gallico (1897-1976) is best known now as the author of The Poseidon Adventure, which was made into a movie along with several other works of his. His first novel, Snow Goose, has been in print continuously since 1941. Zachary Michael Jack is the editor of Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On (Nebraska 2008).

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