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You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the greatest sports dynasty, and you can shout out your precious statistics, and maybe you're right, and maybe the red-faced guy down the bar - the one with the foam on his beer and the fancy computer rankings - is right, but nobody really knows.

~Frank Deford

Topics: About Athlete Bar Beer Computer Down Dynasty Fancy Greatest Guy His Knows Maybe Nobody Out Precious Really Right Scream Shout Sports Stand Statistics Want Which Who You Your

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The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is that Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics teams he led stand alone as the ultimate winners.

~Frank Deford

Topics: About Alone America Bill Boston Century He Know Led Only Russell Sports Stand States Superiority Sure Teams The Only Thing Thing Ultimate United United States United States Of America Winners 20Th Century

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Bill Russell was the pivot on which the whole sport turned.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Bill Russell Sport Turned Which Whole

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First and foremost, Howard Cosell is sports. There are all these people, these fans, who claim that when Cosell does a game on television, they turn off the sound on the TV and listen to the radio broadcast. Oh, sure. You probably know critics in your neighborhood who vow the same thing. Well, too bad for them.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Bad Broadcast Claim Critics Does Fans First Foremost Game Know Listen Neighborhood Off Oh People Radio Same Same Thing Sound Sports Sure Television Them Thing Too Turn Tv Vow Well Who You Your

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The stories that are most unfamiliar, the ones that seem to come out of the blue about people that aren't well known, usually come from producers that have really done a lot of homework and looked around. Other stories come from the correspondents.

~Frank Deford

Topics: About Around Blue Come Done Homework Known Looked Lot Most Other Out People Producers Really Seem Stories Unfamiliar Well Well Known

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I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real Sports,' I have been a writer since I was a little boy, and that's still my first love.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Any Been Being Boy First First Love Like Little Love Made Much Never Real Since Sports Still Television Writer

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People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Anyway Because Both Broadcast Closer Lump Mediums Much Often People Radio Television Than Together Writing Npr

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It costs a lot of money to deliver newsprint. It's so much easier to do it through the air, Internet, radio, television. The second easiest thing is to do it through the mail. But when you have to take something heavy and put it on someone's doorstep, that costs a lot of money.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Air Costs Deliver Doorstep Easier Easiest Easiest Thing Heavy Internet Lot Mail Money Much Put Radio Second Someone Something Take Television Thing Through You

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There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that had no major league teams, but at least they had college football.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Angeles Baseball Cities College College Football Football Had Including Large League Least Los Los Angeles Lot Major Major League Other Places Really Teams Were

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I can remember going to see the minor league Orioles. Until I was 15 years old, we'd go down with 3,000 people to watch them play the Syracuse Chiefs or the Jersey City Little Giants. That's what passed for Baltimore sports.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Baltimore City Down Giants Go Going Jersey League Little Minor Old Passed People Play Remember See Sports Them Until Watch Years I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 16th, 1938

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