On a lark I picked up a copy of Bury Me in an Old Press Box: Good Times and Life of a Sportswriter by Fred Russell from my shelves in the basement. I picked it up from the Book Thing a year or two ago after it had been discarded by the Mercy Hospital, Inc. Nursing Library. The book has a copyright of date of 1957.

As soon as I started reading, I realized this was going to be good. The second page into the Forward, page viii reads in part:

But I believe that most people who turn to the sports page first do so because there is so little fun anywhere else in the paper. The "funnies" are not even called that anymore, and the term "comic strip" is a gross misnomer for all but a few. As for the front page, it seems eternally permeated with the perils of our position in the Middle East, arguments among politicans, automobile wrecks and bad weather.

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