Lately, I have been remembering my longtime friend John Underwood, mainly because of a book he wrote, Death of an American Game.
If you’re an old-timer who has kept up with sports with a serious bent, you are likely to have read some of John’s work. He wrote for Sports Illustrated in the magazine’s heyday from the 1950s and into the ‘70s.
He was also a highly acclaimed author and was serenaded for h…