DAVE ZIRIN recently referred to Robert Lipsyte as “my personal sports writing Yoda.” Lipsyte is the writer who in 1975, after several years on The New York Times sports desk, published SportsWorld—at the time, a bracing exposé of athletic exploitation and corruption. Lipsyte proved himself an unafraid myth-buster: it may sound silly to today’s far more jaded sports fan, but pointing out that the ultimate underdog team—the “Amazin’ Mets” of 1969—actually turned healthy profits, for example, was like revealing the Tooth Fairy’s true identity.
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