Pond Scum and Vultures: America's Sportswriters Talk About Their Glamorous Profession

by Gene Wojciechowski

Two hundred of the country's best-known sportswriters offer the inside story of what really goes on between the media and the sports figures they cover

Genres: Sports, Journalism

244 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Erik Deckers · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my wishes is to sit at a dinner with two or three sports riders and listen to them tell stories. This book is just such a dinner. It’s filled with a story after story after story, with no fluff or pontificating. It’s just stories. I highly recommend it if you are into sports writing, into sports, and can remember many of the players and journalists from the 80s.

[Cat. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty funny! All kinds of vignettes & stories about the sports world as seen by the reporters specializing in it. He manages to get lots of digs in on the players (et al.) he personally dislikes, which is amusing. I'd love to see this updated--it came out 10 years ago!--but I wonder if he had any problems being blackballed after this one.