Ed Odeven’s “Going 15 Rounds With Jerry Izenberg: A Collection Of Interviews With The Legendary Columnist” highlights the work of a sportswriting career that began in 1951.
Izenberg with Ali seemed like a natural choice for the book’s cover
The Newark Star-Ledger (New Jersey) columnist (now emeritus) attended 24 Muhammad Ali fights, the first 53 Super Bowls, 55 consecutive Kentucky Derbies, and around 40 World Series, among other notable feats.
Alexander Wolff, Sports Illustrated senior writer emeritus, puts it this way: “Jerry Izenberg knew his sports ― finally forced to miss a Super Bowl, he predicted its final score on the nose ― but at the same time, he never overlooked the wider world adjacent to the games playing out before him. In Going 15 Rounds, the voices of Izenberg, his fellow sportswriters, and biographer Ed Odeven blend beautifully as they evoke in harmony an often disharmonious time marked by cataclysmic events. Journalism, history, sports, and a parade of iconic figures ー they’re all here in this rich, wide-ranging book.”
Author Ed Odeven writes: “Jerry Izenberg’s career as a newspaper reporter and columnist spans generations. From the early 1950s to the present, he has written about championship teams and Olympic icons, baseball and football superstars, and boxing legends. He became one of the best American sports columnists along the way.”
“Going 15 Rounds with Jerry Izenberg” is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other fine booksellers.
