Dave Kindred

During the early summer of 1959 a kid named Dave Kindred just out of high school with a sports background applied for a job on a small town newspaper where I was managing editor. I hired him and, although I didn’t recognize it, he was on his way to a major career in sports journalism.
After college he wrote for the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and also wrote columns for national sports magazines.
And he wrote books, ten of them so far. I was stuck with my own meager journalism career and was only vaguely aware of his accomplishments. Now I know. He mentioned me in the acknowledgments of his latest book, Sound and Fury. So I read it. My gosh, the kid can write. And research. It must have taken a ton of digging to come up with such a complete story.
This is my first attempt since college at writing a book report. But when a guy names you in the book’s acknowledgments, what you gonna do? I’m not doing it justice, I know. However, if you like sports, particularly boxing, you’ll love the story of Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell and their unlikely relationship.
Enough already. Read the book. Sound and Fury. I highly recommend it, naturally. But so do many others even though they are not mentioned in the acknowledgments.
That’s SOUND AND FURY by Dave Kindred.