Stan Isaacs keeps an old Newsday tradition alive
Here is a special bonus treat for long-time Newsday readers who recall Stan Isaacs - one of the most memorable figures in the paper's history and the man Tony Kornheiser says he aspired to be when he began in the business.
Stan just posted his 47th annual ratings, a Newsday staple for decades and now a feature in Isaacs' new on-line life at The Columnists.com.
As always, pay special attention to Isaacs' thoughts on chocolate ice cream.
Enjoy.
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Isaacs should be among the lists of Giants, especially as legend has it he stole the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers World Series pennant away from those damned O'Malleys. And for writing a tv-sports column when Cosell ruled the world and Bristol[s] was the preferred euphenism for breasts on the Benny Hill Show.
Good bite from a voice of the old Newsday [pre-Tribune Co.] like Jacobson, Gergen, etc.
And I do agree with his #1 chocolate ice cream favorite. I had mine there [right next to Notre Dame the cathedral, not Notre Dame the Touchdown Jesus] on a hot September day a few years ago. Better than any Carvel, for sure.
I may be the only person alive (other than Stan and the keepers of this flame) who uses the "Seven Santini Brothers" in a metaphorical sense.
I may be the only person alive (including, possibly, Stan) who remembers a column where he speculated on the replacement for a college hoops coach (Carnesecca, I'm thinking) and made it a complete WordAssociationFootball string of names, beginning "Al McGuire, Dick McGuire, Frank Maguire, the Maguire Sisters, the Santini Brothers, The Brothers Karamazov"...
which is as far as my feeble mind goes these days.
In the early days of the Mets' late-season demise, I honored Stan's tradition with a post of mine own, respecting who I'd rather see on our pitching mound than a certain pretender sent out there, all too soon and all too often, back when things still looked slightly feasible:
Damn, even I left out the Santini Brothers
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