The 1969 Chronicles:
A Sports Writer's Notes

By Stan Isaacs

A collection of columns and
retrospective commentary by a former
Newsday sports reporter and columnist

A coach is not a priest. Games are not life. Failure in
athletics is nothing more than failure in athletics.
There's is no authority save the Rule, which all
players have agreed on, and there is no fun like
playing a game for the sake of a game.
— Heywood Hale Broun

Chapters Introduction 1. The Amazing Mets 2. Yankee Fans 3. Music to My Ears 4. Ali & Friends 5. People Are Funny 6. The Poetry Corner 7. The Glorious Knicks 8. Bill Bradley & Others 9. Horsing Around 10. An Angry Mother 11. Political Baseball 12. Fun and Games 13. The Sweet Science 14. Baseball, Gentlemen 15. Some Immortals 16. A Galleria 17. Ladies First 18. The Irrepressible Jets 19. The Sporting Culture

Email Stan Isaacs at sibelch@optonline.net