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"A guy stopped me in McDonald's the other day and asked me, 'Hey, aren't you famous",'" novelist and sportswriter Frank Deford told Authors and Artists for Young Adults (AAYA) contributor Tom Pendergast. "I said, 'I'm fringe-famous.' That's what I am. I'll tell you the funniest thing that ever happened to me. I'm walking down 42nd St. in New York City, and I stopped at a corner and overheard these two guys who had passed me. One guy says to the other, 'There goes the best writer in the world.' The other guy says, 'Who"' The first one says, 'Well, Frank Deford.' And the second one says, 'Who's he"' And that was it. He hadn't the foggiest idea who I was. That's sort of the way people look at me. I get recognized just enough that its fun, and nobody says anything rotten to me."
Modesty aside, Deford is probably more than "fringe famous." Widely recognized as one of the greatest living sportswriters, Deford defined intelligent sportswriting during his twenty-seven years with the weekly Sports Illustrated.
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