Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life

It was a long way from the gritty streets of Springfield Avenue on Chicago's West Side, and hawking stockings in the old Maxwell Street marketplace, to a position as sports columnist and feature writer for the New York Times, and a share in the Pulitzer Prize. But Ira Berkow made that improbable journey. In this joyful, moving, and often funny memoir, he describes how he climbed up to become not just a sportswriter but a writer.Berkow, Ira is the author of 'Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life', published 2007 under ISBN 9781566637558 and ISBN 1566637554.