Death of sports journalist and author David Halberstam
Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his reporting on the Vietnam War, and later wrote books such as The Best and the Brightest (1972) about America’s involvement in southeast Asia. He wrote 20 other books, many of them dealing with US politics and current affairs.
However, he also wrote several terrific sports books, often taking on a sports project after a more ‘serious’ book. He wrote The Breaks of the Game (1981) about the NBA in the seventies, and The Amateurs (1985), which tracks the rivalries among the US rowing team in the run-up to the 1984 Olympics. His baseball books include Summer of ‘49 (1989), October 1964 (1993) and The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (2003). He also wrote Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made (1999) and Bill Belichick: The Education of a Coach (2005).
