弗兰克·基廷（Frank Keating）的作品为《卫报》增添了40年的光彩，从1973年到2013年初去世前不久。在基廷的鼎盛时期，他充满活力的文字游戏和纯粹的生活乐趣令读者兴奋不已。他们不仅把他视为一名记者，还把他视为一名球迷，他们为体育本身和让体育成为人们关注的明星而分享自己的喜悦。他还与巴里·约翰和伊恩·博瑟姆等许多伟大人物有着特殊的关系。
从20世纪70年代到90年代，他几乎参加了所有重大体育赛事。后来，他成了一个怀旧者，因为他有一份无与伦比的礼物，能让过去重现生机。但他对体育的快乐、乐观、阳光普照的看法总是会引发文学界的暴躁情绪，尤其是在面对委员会会议室的白痴和多管闲事的门卫时。
这些亮点包括他在《卫报》上发表的许多关于各种运动的最佳作品，以及他在其他地方的作品节选，包括《观察家》、《老歌》和《旁观者》——以及他的自传《中场哨声》和他对1980-81年英格兰加勒比海巡演的经典描述，这是天堂里又一个血腥的日子。
由他的朋友和同事马修·恩格尔（Matthew Engel）编辑的《亮点》是对一位非常特殊的作家作品的持久记录。
The Highlights: The Best of Frank Keating
Frank Keating’s work adorned the Guardian for four decades from 1973 until shortly before his death in early 2013. In his heyday Keating’s fizzing wordplay and sheer joie de vivre thrilled readers. They saw him not just as a journalist but as a fan who shared their own delight in sport for its own sake and in the stars who made it watchable. He also had a special rapport with many of the greats such as Barry John and Ian Botham.
From the 1970s to the 1990s he attended nearly all the great sporting events. Later he became a nostalgist with a matchless gift for bringing the past to life. But his happy, rosy, sunlit view of sport was always subject to magnificent outbreaks of literary bad temper, especially when confronted by committee-room idiots and officious gatemen.
The Highlights includes much of his best writing in the Guardian on a huge range of sport plus extracts from his work elsewhere, including The Observer, The Oldie and The Spectator – and from his books, including the autobiography Half-Time Whistle and his classic account of the 1980-81 England tour of the Caribbean, Another Bloody Day in Paradise.
Edited by his friend and colleague Matthew Engel, The Highlights is a lasting record of the work of a very special writer.
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