Release date: 2025
This is a two-volume collection of stories written through Kerry’s 50 years of sportswriting in Portland — 45 of them with the Oregon Journal, Oregonian and Portland Tribune newspapers. There are 60 articles in each set covering a wide array of sports and subject matters from 1974 to the present.
Ahead and behind most of the reprinted articles are a preface and postscript, setting up the story and explaining what happened with the subject after it was published.
There is no “A” and “B” volume, incidentally. Stories of import and interest are equally divided between volumes — at least that is the intent of the author.
There are stories with legendary world sports figures (Muhammad Ali, Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson) and those with local ties (Bill Walton, Clyde Drexler, Phil Knight, Tonya Harding, Pat Casey). There are major events (Super Bowls, NBA championship series, College World Series, the “Subway” World Series) and offbeat pieces, such as Kerry’s venture into participatory journalism with a week practicing with Mouse Davis’ Portland State football team.
Release date: 2025
This is a two-volume collection of stories written through Kerry’s 50 years of sportswriting in Portland — 45 of them with the Oregon Journal, Oregonian and Portland Tribune newspapers. There are 60 articles in each set covering a wide array of sports and subject matters from 1974 to the present.
Ahead and behind most of the reprinted articles are a preface and postscript, setting up the story and explaining what happened with the subject after it was published.
There is no “A” and “B” volume, incidentally. Stories of import and interest are equally divided between volumes — at least that is the intent of the author.
There are stories with legendary world sports figures (Muhammad Ali, Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson) and those with local ties (Bill Walton, Clyde Drexler, Phil Knight, Tonya Harding, Pat Casey). There are major events (Super Bowls, NBA championship series, College World Series, the “Subway” World Series) and offbeat pieces, such as Kerry’s venture into participatory journalism with a week practicing with Mouse Davis’ Portland State football team.
