Grantland Rice and His Heroes : The Sportswriter as Mythmaker in the 1920s

Mark Inabinett
University of Tennessee Press
 9780870498497
0-87049-849-5

With no way for fans to verify their facts, the sportswriters of the 1920s enjoyed a near monopoly on sports news. Journalist Mark Inabinett explores the incomparable Grantland Rice's role in creating the legends that surrounded six sports stars--Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Red Grange, and Knute Rockne. Photographs.