For fourteen years during the golden age of sports, Paul Gallico was one of America\'s ace sportswriters.
Then in 1937, at the height of his game (and the height of the payroll), Gallico suddenly and famously called it quits and left the New York Daily News.
He saw them all-the stars and the hams, the immortals and the phonies in boxing, wrestling, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and every other field of muscular endeavor in which men and women try to break hearts and necks for cash or glory.
For fourteen years during the golden age of sports, Paul Gallico was one of America\'s ace sportswriters