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John Berthelsen
Apr 25, 2007
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David Halberstam was killed Monday night in a car wreck south of San Francisco. The headline on the website for ESPN, the US sports channel, read “Famed Sports Author Halberstam Dies in Car Crash.”

Sports author? For another generation of Americans, the 73-year-old Halberstam, who did write several sports books later in life, was far better known for his…

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