Celebrated sports journalist Robert Lipsytethe New York Times longtime lead sports columnistmines pure gold from his long and very eventful career to bring readers a memoir like no other. An enthralling book, as much about personal relationships and the culture of sports as the athletes and teams themselves, An Accidental Sportswriter interweaves stories from Lipsytes life and the events he covered to explore the connections between the games we play and the lives we lead. Robert Lipsyte has been therefrom the Mets first Spring Training to the fight that made Muhammad Ali an international icon to the current steroids scandals that rewired our view of sportsand in An Accidental Sportswriter he offers a fresh and refreshing view of the world of professional athletes as seen through the eyes of a journalist who always managed to remain independent of our jock-obsessed culture.