Jimmy Powers introduces the life of sportswriter Grantland Rice, who covered American sports for over fifty years. Powers recounts the sports writers of his era and Rice's philosophy about golf and living. He then tells the story in first person as Rice, beginning with his birth in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 1880 and his family background. Rice describes his years at Vanderbilt University, where he played football and baseball, and his first jobs in newspapers in Nashville and Atlanta. He recalls marrying Catherine Hollis and the birth of their daughter Florence. Finally he receives an offer from the New York Evening Mail and makes the move to New York, leaving his family behind until they can follow him.

With Jimmy Powers, Grantland Rice, Major Henry Grantland, Catherine Hollis, Martin, Henry L. Stoddard.

Listen for: Rice's account of his first newspaper jobs and his move to New York to join the Evening Mail

First aired in 1950.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: The Grantland Rice Story on Stupid Potato, every episode so far and the episode guide.

Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 188 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.