Stan Isaacs (1929–2013) was a sportswriter and pioneering sports media reporter. His longtime column, “Out of Left Field,” appeared in Newsday. He is the author of Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World. Aram Goudsouzian is the Bizot Family Professor of History at the University of Memphis. He is the author of The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America.
“Stan was the best of us: smart, funny, compassionate, a rare sportswriter who not only understood the games but recognized they only made true sense in a larger social context. Do I love him because he took me under his wing at my first spring training or because sixty-odd years later he is still such fun to read?”--Robert Lipsyte, former New York Times sports columnist