World's Greatest Sportswriter passes away. RIP Dan Jenkins

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http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/FortWorth/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=FWST%2F2019%2F03%2F08&entity=Ar01800&sk=223C6C70&mode=text

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/his-ownself-dan-jenkins-1929-2019-tribute-dies-at-age-89/amp
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Mitch Blood Green
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I didn't read his work. RIP, sir.
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tommie said:

I didn't read his work. RIP, sir.

Funniest guy to ever touch a typewriter, especially if you're from Texas. He's written over 25 books. I own them all and have read them all at least twice, some as many as six times. I mean, you sometimes laugh out loud reading them.
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Like Dan, this article is a bit of an understated remembrance including especially the remark that Jenkins was no "lover of Texas".
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The golfdigest tribute is great
Dia del DougO
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Always enjoyed his excellent NFL preview for Playboy back in the day. It was the only time I would buy the magazine for the articles.
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Stranger said:

tommie said:

I didn't read his work. RIP, sir.

Funniest guy to ever touch a typewriter, especially if you're from Texas. He's written over 25 books. I own them all and have read them all at least twice, some as many as six times. I mean, you sometimes laugh out loud reading them.
If you can read Baja Oklahoma without laughing out loud, then you are most likely a corpse.
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tommie said:

I didn't read his work. RIP, sir.
You would love Semi-Tough and the sequel, Life Its Ownself.

Semi-Tough might be the funniest book I've ever read.
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Pecos 45
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bubbadog said:

tommie said:

I didn't read his work. RIP, sir.
You would love Semi-Tough and the sequel, Life Its Ownself.

Semi-Tough might be the funniest book I've ever read.
I have to go with Baja Oklahoma.
I was living in Dallas when that book came out, and it described the DFW metroplex to a T.
The social climbers, the clubs, the restaurants.
It was hilariously spot on.
And Baja Oklahoma is where the phrase, "That's my story and I'm sticking to it," first originated.
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bubbadog said:

tommie said:

I didn't read his work. RIP, sir.
You would love Semi-Tough and the sequel, Life Its Ownself.

Semi-Tough might be the funniest book I've ever read.


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