Summer reading
 

Kinda embarrassed to admit I've never read these two classics but I just picked up this Classics of American Sport edition combining the two titles...

https://i.imgur.com/VnOVdPUl.jpg

:o....I haven't either Phil...:o




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The first one is a great read. Haven’t read the second but was told it isn’t as good. Of course that is singular heresay.

You’ll enjoy them, Phil.

I have the same for many years and it is just as good the 4 th or 5 th time as the first. Went to see my Granddaughter in Myrtel beach and The Old Mans house is an hour north so went and poked around the places mentioned in the book. His house is a bed and breakfast now.

Im sure you’ll love them. That first book is very special.

Ruark’s obit. Hemingway was his idol and they were soulmates for sure.

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...101554378.html

Garth, it wanted me to have a subscription to view. This appeared in a recent Sporting Classics Daily and prompted me to seek out the Ruark book...

https://sportingclassicsdaily.com/bob-ruark-and-the-boy

I love them both. I’ve reread them many times.

I recently read the first one. My son read it and did a book report on it. Everyone who is interested in outdoor sports should read it.

I read "The Old Man and the Boy" in Field and Stream all through the mid to late fifties and maybe into the sixties. My dad must have been renewing my subscriptions religiously because I still have a shelf full of F&S, never having discarded a single issue. Of course, all of them included Corey Ford's "The Lower Forty". Dad knew Ruark through cocktail parties in D.C. while Ruark was employed by the Washington Daily News. I would kill to add his News columns to my meager Ruark collection. I guess they are lost for eternity.

Ruark’s obit in New York Times

If the WDN is included on Newspapers.com, you may find them there. I let my subscription lapse or I would check.

Mr. Murphy i believe his columns are kept at the university of North Carolina. I did a search a few years ago but did not find out if they are available online. If online you may be able to print them.

If they are at UNC, UNC is putting more and more stuff online all the time.

Ruark is one of my favorites even though I am a recent convert

I have the combination book, and have enjoyed it for over 20 years. A favorite.

I saw this today: https://www.grayssportingjournal.com...-appreciation/

I have read both books many times. By far the best reading on the subject I have done. I am a bit partial, was raised in the late 40s and 50s in the country. Except for the salt water stuff, I lived a lot of what Ruark wrote about in the first book. The picture is my paternal grandfather with Jake and Queenie (my Frank and Sandy). I still have the hat. Jbrown

great hat I too have many memories from hats worn by friends and families....charlie