The Grantland Rice Story - Single Episodes
Read by Jimmy Powers
The Grantland Rice Story is a captivating 15-minute series that brings to life the autobiography of one of America's most important sportswriters. Serialized from Rice's popular book, "The Tumult and The Shouting," this program features fifty-two sequential installments that closely follow the text while incorporating contemporary insights and updates from narrator Jimmy Powers.
First airing regionally in August 1955, the series quickly gained traction across the nation, with broadcasts varying in frequency. Powers, a noted sportswriter himself, narrates and comments on Rice's story in the first person, enhancing the experience with additional material that places Rice's work in context with the era.
This series provides a comprehensive insight into Rice's career and experiences, making it a unique listening experience for fans of sports history and literature.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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Grantland Rice was one of the greats
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These transcriptions of Jimmy Powers reading from Grantland Rice's book "The Tumult and the Shouting" are wonderful. The recording quality is very good and hearing Powers read them in the first person makes it seem that Rice is still alive. I loved the episode in which Rice described NY Times writer John Kieran's disappearance from a big golf event they were both covering when he heard the call of a rare bird in the woods. Kieran slipped away from the golf and was not seen again for two hours. For those not familiar with Rice, this is his most famous quote: "For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the Game." As true today as ever.