THE BLACKIE SHERROD COLLECTION.
Dallas: Taylor Publishing Co., 1988. xvii,270pp. Index. Introduction by Dan Jenkins. Black cloth with title in white ink on the spine. First edition, first printing. Fine copy in an equally nice dust jacket. Wallace Forrest “Blackie” Sherrod was described by Dan Jenkins as “the best sportswriter in Texas as well as one of the greatest in the history of earth.” Supporting this, is the fact that Sherrod was voted Texas Sportswriter of Year sixteen times. This is a compilation of his best columns from the mid-seventies to the late eighties. They cover everything from fractured Christmas verse to his proposed NCAA recruiting manual (“automobiles: in assorted shades, but only two models: Trans Ams for skill positions, pickups for others”). If you enjoy dry wit and delightful tales, you will find this book hard to put down.