cover image Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Haiku and Other Whimsical Observations to Help You Understand the Modern Game

Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Haiku and Other Whimsical Observations to Help You Understand the Modern Game

Gregg Easterbrook. Universe Publishing(NY), $15.95 (74pp) ISBN 978-0-7893-0651-7

Titled after his thoughtful Slate column, Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Haiku and Whimsical Observations to Help You Understand the Modern Game presses sportswriter Gregg Easterbrook's commentary into metrical service. His one rule: ""literary merit optional."" How else to explain gems like ""Ideally, don't play./ Fans wince when I trot on field./ I am the Punter."" Indeed. Yet Easterbrook has the lefty egghead sportsnut market locked up in addition to his Slate duties, he's a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, and a senior editor at the New Republic. He's also the author of what the press chat calls ""the landmark eco-realist book,"" A Moment on the Earth: The Coming of Age of Environmental Optimism. This little square book (5 1/2"" 6 1/4"") includes 40 b&w illustrations, mostly of old-style gridiron action. (Sept.)