Vecsey, Ribowsky at January sports authors event

December 28, 2011

Gelf’s Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, Jan. 5, at 7:30 p.m., to Manhattan’s The Gallery at LPR. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, George Vecsey, Mark Ribowsky, and Dave Zirin will read from and talk about their work.

Vecsey, who recently ended his 30-year stint as a New York Times sports columnist, released Stan Musial: An American Life earlier this year.

Ribowsky is author of Don’t Look Back : Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball, Josh Gibson: The Power and The Darkness, and other baseball titles. His new biography, Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports) was released this fall, as was Zirin’s The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World, co-authored with Carlos, who sparked controversy with his defiant Black Power salute at the 1968 Summer Games.

Admission is free. For more information, click here.

 

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