GRANTLAND RICE - PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED TWICE - HFSID 290073
Sale Price $495.00
Reg. $600.00
GRANTLAND RICE
5x7 photo, wearing a hat and staring intently at the camera, signed in
fountain pen
Photograph signed twice : "Grantland Rice". B/w, 5x7. He has
signed a second time on verso, adding his New York City address. Additional
pencil notes on verso (unknown hand), along with fragment of a news clipping.
Considered a pioneer of modern sports journalism, Grantland Rice
(1890-1954) was the first U.S. newspaperman to gain fame by writing about
sports. Credited with the popular phrase "It's not whether you won or
lost, but how you played the game", he was the first to call a famous
football backfield the "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame, His elegant prose
emphasized the heroic aspect of sport, helping to make legends of stars such as
Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Knute Rockne, Bill Tilden and Babe
Didrickson Zaharias. His column, "The Sportlight", was nationally syndicated in
1930, and Rice also produced documentaries and wrote books, including The
Duffer's Handbook of Golf (1926), about sports. Horizontal crease touching
his hat, a couple of bends and small stains, paperclip impression at the top of
the image, and some silvering to the darker portions. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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