Red Smith on Baseball: The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years.

• Author: BARRETT, WAYNE M.
• Position: Review

* To be a good writer, you must be a good reader. An excellent place to start would be Red Smith on Baseball: The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years (Ivan R. Dee, 384 pages, $24.95). Although both statements in the subtitle could be argued, let's not quibble. Smith was an absolutely amazing columnist, and these 167 pieces that ran...