Ever read about a novel by Ernest Hemingway and wonder how he got his start.  How his prosaic often mosaic landscape picture in words got its birth? Where is the career start pin-pointed on the map of his resume` beginnings?

  It started in Chicago covering boxing matches and writing of fishing expeditons he went on with friends in Michigan.  He would often walk around Michigan from lake to stream looking for the best fishing spot.  The best of writers use the keyboard for a camera and paintbrush.  The sentinel pine trees crowning the horizon green on the rim of the helmet, top is plumed blue with clouds that swirl as Hemingway and buddies cast fly fish lines in the Crystal River in north Michigan.  This is not an attempt at copying Hemingway but to show that the writer and sport merge.  That in capable hands the keyboard has a shutter that clicks and paints that are colorful.

  After Chicago he was able to get a job with the Kansas City Star covering sports and other happenings around the mid west.  Then it was on to Toronto and there he wrote about  hockey and Canadian sports.

  Then the rest is history.  In Paris he met F. Scott Fitzgerald and he the author was able to write about the sport bull fighting and another fishing book, a classic; The Old man and the Sea.

  If there is any author in American Literature touched by sport it is Ernest Hemingway. 

-LGRW    _X_