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His inexhaustible talent and limitless range are on full display here: from the perplexities of tennis scoring ("a game in which love counts for nothing, deuces are wild, and the scoring system was invented by Lewis Carroll") and baseball rules ("The infield fly rule is about as simple as calligraphy. It might as well be a Japanese naval code") to Murray's Laws ("The way to make a line move faster is to join the other one") and many of his colorful profiles ("Richard Petty has climbed in more windows than 50 car thieves...He wasn't born, he was assembled and modified"). His striking images, evocative prose, and hyperbolic one-liners have made Murray one of the most quotable and most celebrated sports columnists of the twentieth century.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Reportage & collected journalism

• Full title: Jim Murray Reader
• Author: Jim Murray
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780803283268
• ISBN: 0803283261
• ID: 04370676
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 444 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 154 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2011

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