The 1969 Chronicles: A Sports Writer's Notes  By Stan Isaacs

Chapter 7: The Glorious Knicks I like to think that I generally kept a level-headed approach to games, adhering to the "no cheering in the press box" dictum of the trade. If I did not cheer for the Knicks from my perch on the press row, that could not be said of the rah-rah verbiage emanating from Left Field in 1969. The following set of columns on the Knicks capture, even some 30 years later, not only my enthusiasms but I think the whole love affair that Gotham had for the Knicks. When you think of the Knicks and glory, I think it is this team and this season more than any other that most warms the cockles of Knicks fandom. * * * Columns: The Knicks Streak vs. the Bogeyman DeBusschere a Hit Even Without Ball Hail the Knicks: a Loosey-Goosey Group Knicks Weren't Perfect, But That's Their Story Walt Frazier: Mr. Entertainer Knicks May Be Shiniest of Gotham's Sports Gems That Knick Nailbiter: Play It Once More, Red Never Was a Night Like the Night Knicks Won

Chapters Home Page 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   The Knicks Streak vs. the Bogeyman   DeBusschere a Hit Even Without Ball   Hail the Knicks: a Loosey-Goosey Group   Knicks Weren't Perfect, But That's Their Story   Walt Frazier: Mr. Entertainer   Knicks May Be Shiniest of Gotham's Sports Gems   That Knick Nailbiter: Play It Once More, Red   Never Was a Night Like the Night Knicks Won 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 The losers bemoan what went wrong; the winners see victory as a triumph of their own virtures. — Walter Plinge