Chronicling Our Sporting Lives ; `Friday Night Lights' Author Buzz Bissinger Turns His Attention to Baseball.
Portland Press Herald › March 13, 2005
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Buzz Bissinger had a pretty good career in newspapers going.
He had been an investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune, and he had been part of a reporting team at the Philadelphia Inquirer that won a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering problems in that city's court system.See the full content of this document
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Chronicling Our Sporting Lives ; `Friday Night Lights' Author Buzz Bissinger Turns His Attention to Baseball.
But in 1988 he gave that up. He moved his family to Odessa, Texas, amid oil fields and little else, to spend a year chronicling the lives of high school football players. He gambled that the story would be a compelling one, showing the powe...
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