The smaller the ball the better the writing?

It really bothers me that I instantly thought of jai-alai, then scrolled down and saw someone had already mentioned it.

 

If by "better" Plimpton or whoever it was meant "more pretentious" he was on to something. Holy shit, the man's OWN football book was a million times better read and sold a bazillion more copies than either his golf or baseball books. I have a hard time thinking Plimpton would be the author of that faruous statement.

 

I guess it's because I grew up in England that I've always thought that soccer had some pretty great writers like Brian Glanville from England and Simon Kuper from Holland, but in Europe soccer is all we really care about so is inevitably draws the best writers.

As far as non-ball sports, boxing has always been rife with great pieces, especially during the hey-day of the sport. You can still find it now when a great fight is on, but those are becoming few and far between.....

 

We all know how the late Bon Scott felt about this.

He's got big balls
and she's got big balls
but we've got the biggest! balls of them all!

 

beach ball writers would be pissed to hear about this. kickball writers, too.

 

Well, it would explain why there's never been any BASW entries about this:

 

golf produces some of the worst writing in the biz

way too many guys trying to be great instead of just hammering out a main bar and notes

 

That's the problem with this country. Too many people trying to be great.

 

We'll find out with the U.S. Open finish today.

 

It's a problem when all those people can't pull it off and end up with an unreadable blob of pretentious crap. Or haven't you read golf copy lately?

 

Sirs, Madames,

And yet the writing on The Prisoner was some of the best in the history of television.

http://www.rhuthun-cymru.co.uk/ruthintc2/daytours/theprisoner.jpg

YHS, etc