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New Year's Eve: America's Biggest And Ugliest BenderOriginally published in 1951 and anthologized in Nobody Asked Me, But ...: The World of Jimmy Cannon....

At His Peak Jimmy Cannon Was GreatOkay, maybe his stuff hasn't aged well, maybe he's been imitated too often, maybe he became a parody of himself, his later work overshadowing the former excellence. Whatever the case, Jimmy Cannon's reputation has faded. We rightly praise Red Smith and W.C. Heinz and John Lardner but not Cannon. Th...

What's Your Hurry, Joe?Found combing through the excellent and most bookmark-worthy site The Sports Curator, I came across this 1941 column by Jimmy Cannon:...

H-U-S-T-L-E-R, Huster

Dig this 1958 Jimmy Cannon column, "Broadway Sportsman":...

Three Times Dope

Here's Shirley Povich's column on Don Larsen's perfect game:...