The world has lost one of its best writers-voices

There are deaths of notable that make you wince in its suddenness and personal impact.
The death of author-journalist David Halberstam was one such moment.
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Not only was he a Pultzer Prize winning journalist for his Vietnam coverage, but I loved him as a chronicler of my favorite sport, baseball. He was greatness in all areas but pure genius when it came to America's pastime because he was able to perfectly capture all nuances and meanings of a game played by men but invented for boys.
He wrote "Playing for Keeps, "October 1964," "The Amateurs," "The Breaks of the Game" and "The Teammates," the latter book about three legendary Boston Red Sox players (Johnny Pesky, Dominic DiMaggio and Bobby Doerr) going to see Ted Williams for one final time in October, 2001.
However, the creme de la creme had to be "Summer of '49," which detailed the most exciting pennant race ever - the 1949 epic battle beween Boston and the hated rival New York Yankees. It was, and is, the finest book EVER WRITTEN on baseball -- period, end of discussion, no more words need be said or written.
Halberstam was working on a book about the 1958 NFL defining playoff game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York football Giants. He was en route to an interview with ex-Giant QB Y.A. Tittle when a car plowed into his vehicle in Menlo Park, Calif.
The world cannot afford to lose its most talented people before their time is up ... or before the world is ready to give them up.
Take a moment to say a word of prayer for David Halberstam, a DaVinci among wordsmiths.
The world is worse off.