Dan Jenkins
{{Short description|American author and sportswriter (1928–2019)}}
{{for|the American actor|Daniel H. Jenkins}}
{{use mdy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{infobox person
|name=Dan Jenkins
|birth_name=Daniel Thomas Jenkins
|birth_date={{birth date|1928|12|2}}
|birth_place=Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|2019|3|7|1928|12|2}}
|death_place=Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
|years_active=1950s–2019
|occupation=Author, sports journalist
|alma_mater=Texas Christian University
|spouse=June Burrage (m. 1959)
|children=3, including Sally Jenkins
}}
Daniel Thomas Jenkins (December 2, 1928 – March 7, 2019) was an American author and sportswriter who often wrote for Sports Illustrated.{{cite news |url=https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article227286574.html |title=Fort Worth and sports lose a legend in the passing of the great Dan Jenkins |first=Mac |last=Engel |newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |date=March 7, 2019}} He was also a high-standard amateur golfer who played college golf at Texas Christian University.
Early life
Jenkins was born in 1928 and raised in Fort Worth, Texas,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/obituaries/dan-jenkins-dead.html |title=Dan Jenkins, 90, Chronicler of Sports in Raucous Prose, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Bruce |last=Weber |date=March 8, 2019}} where he attended R. L. Paschal High School and Texas Christian University, where he played on the varsity golf team.{{cite web |url=https://gofrogs.com/documents/2019/6/26/2019_20_TCU_MGOLF_Record_Book.pdf |title=2019–20 TCU Men's Golf Record Book – All-time Letterwinners |publisher=TCU Athletics |quote="Jenkins, Dan 1951–52"}}
Career
Jenkins worked for many publications, including the Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald, Playboy, and Sports Illustrated, where among other things, he covered the 1966,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1966/11/28/613405/an-upsidedown-game |title=An Upside-Down Game |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=November 28, 1966 |first=Dan |last=Jenkins}} 1967,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1967/11/27/609756/all-the-way-with-oj |title=All The Way With O.J. |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=November 27, 1967 |first=Dan |last=Jenkins}} 1969,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1969/12/15/613039/texas-by-an-eyelash |title=Texas By An Eyelash |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=December 15, 1969 |first=Dan |last=Jenkins}} and 1971{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1971/12/06/615048/nebraska-rides-high |title=Nebraska Rides High |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=December 6, 1971 |first=Dan |last=Jenkins}} versions of the college football Game of the Century. In 1985, he retired from Sports Illustrated and began writing books full-time, although he maintained a monthly column in Golf Digest.{{cite news |url=http://www.desertexposure.com/stories/dan-jenkins-a-golf-writer-without-parallel,2599 |title=Dan Jenkins: A golf writer without parallel |work=Desert Exposure |first=Charlie |last=Blanchard |date=January 13, 2020}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.golfdigest.com/story/his-ownself-dan-jenkins-1929-2019-tribute-dies-at-age-89 |title=His Ownself: Dan Jenkins, 1928-2019 |magazine=Golf Digest |first=Tom |last=Callahan |date=March 8, 2019}}
Larry King called Jenkins "the quintessential Sports Illustrated writer" and "the best sportswriter in America." Jenkins wrote numerous works and over 500 articles for Sports Illustrated. In 1972, Jenkins wrote his first novel, Semi-Tough.
In December 2014, Jenkins published an article in Golf Digest titled "My (Fake) interview with Tiger; or how it plays out in my mind."{{cite magazine |url=http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-tours-news/2014-12/dan-jenkins-fake-interview-with-tiger |title=My (Fake) Interview With Tiger: Or how it plays out in my mind |magazine=Golf Digest |date=December 2014 |first=Dan |last=Jenkins}} In the piece, which featured images of a Tiger Woods lookalike in golfing gear, Jenkins mocks Woods's reputation in an imaginary interview with the athlete. Though the piece was clearly marked as parody, the champion golfer requested an apology from the magazine. Woods stated that the piece "fails as parody, and is really more like a grudge-fueled piece of character assassination."{{cite web |url=http://www.theplayerstribune.com/tiger-woods-straight-up-not-true-not-funny/ |title=Not True, Not Funny |first=Tiger |last=Woods |date=November 18, 2014 |website=theplayerstribune.com}}
Family
Jenkins's daughter Sally Jenkins is a sports columnist for The Washington Post.
Awards and honors
- 1993 Texas Golf Hall of Fame, Distinguished Service Category{{cite web|url=https://www.texasgolfhof.org/exhibit/dan-jenkins/ |title=Texas Golf Hall of Fame Distinguished Service Award|date=1993}}
- 2012 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing{{cite web |url=https://pen.org/penespn-lifetime-achievement-award-for-literary-sports-writing-winners/ |title=PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award For Literary Sports Writing Winners |date=28 April 2016 |publisher=PEN}}
- 2012 World Golf Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement Category{{cite web |url=http://www.pgatour.com/news/2011/12/14/dan-jenkins.html |title=World Golf Hall of Fame to induct Dan Jenkins in 2012 |publisher=PGA Tour |date=December 14, 2011}}
- 2013 Red Smith Award{{cite web |title=Red Smith Award Winners |url=http://apsportseditors.com/red-smith-award-winners/ |publisher=Associated Press Sports Editors |access-date=January 14, 2020 |archive-date=January 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114201436/http://apsportseditors.com/red-smith-award-winners/ |url-status=dead }}
- 2015 Old Tom Morris Award{{cite magazine |url=https://www.golfdigest.com/story/dan-jenkins-wins-the-2015-old |title=Dan Jenkins receives the 2015 Old Tom Morris Award |magazine=Golf Digest |date=October 28, 2014}}
- 2017 Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism{{cite news |url=https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/01/31/pat-hughes-wins-ring-lardner-award-for-excellence-in-sports-journalism/ |title=Pat Hughes Wins Ring Lardner Award For Excellence In Sports Journalism |work=CBS Chicago |date=January 31, 2017}}
Books
- {{cite book |title=The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=1970 |isbn=978-0-671-66750-4}}
- {{cite book |title=Semi-Tough |url=https://archive.org/details/semitough00danj |url-access=registration |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Atheneum |date=1972 |asin=B000OL8MP0}}
- {{cite book |title=Saturday's America |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Berkley Books|date=1973 |isbn=978-0425023952}}
- {{cite book |title=Dead Solid Perfect |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Atheneum |date=1974 |isbn=978-0689106200}}
- {{cite book |title=Limo: A Novel |last1=Jenkins |first1=Dan |last2=Shrake |first2=Edwin |author-link2=Bud Shrake |publisher= Atheneum |date=1976 |isbn=978-0689107344}}
- {{cite book |title=Baja Oklahoma |url=https://archive.org/details/bajaoklahoma00jenk |url-access=registration |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Atheneum |date=September 1, 1981 |isbn=978-7018982948}}
- {{cite book |title=Life Its Ownself |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=October 1, 1984 |isbn=978-0671460242}}
- {{cite book |title=Fast Copy: A Novel |url=https://archive.org/details/fastcopynovel00jenk |url-access=registration |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=October 1, 1988 |isbn=978-0671602062}}
- {{cite book |title=You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=September 1, 1989 |isbn=978-0671690212}}
- {{cite book |title=You Gotta Play Hurt |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=October 15, 1991 |isbn=978-0671683320 |url=https://archive.org/details/yougottaplayhurt00jenk }}
- {{cite book |title=Bubba Talks: Of Life, Love, Sex, Whiskey, Politics, Movies, Food, Foreigners, Teenagers, Football |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Anchor |date=September 1, 1993 |isbn=978-0385470797}}
- {{cite book |title=Fairways and Greens |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Doubleday |date=May 1, 1994 |isbn=978-0385474252 |url=https://archive.org/details/fairwaysgreensbe00jenk }}
- {{cite book |title=The Best American Sports Writing 1995 |editor-last1=Jenkins |editor-first1=Dan |editor-last2=Stout |editor-first2=Glenn |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |date=November 15, 1995 |isbn=978-0395700709}}
- {{cite book |title=Rude Behavior |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Doubleday |date=September 15, 1998 |isbn=978-0385470001 |url=https://archive.org/details/rudebehaviornove00jenk }}
- {{cite book |title=The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist: A Novel |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Doubleday |date=August 7, 2001 |isbn=978-0385497237 |url=https://archive.org/details/moneywhippedstee00jenk }}
- {{cite book |title=Slim and None |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Doubleday |date=May 3, 2005 |isbn=978-0385508520 |url=https://archive.org/details/slimnonenovel00jenk }}
- {{cite book |title=The Franchise Babe: A Novel |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Doubleday |date=June 3, 2008 |isbn=978-0385519106 |url=https://archive.org/details/franchisebabenov00jenk }}
- {{cite book |title=Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Doubleday |date=May 5, 2009 |isbn=978-0385519137 |url=https://archive.org/details/jenkinsatmajorss00jenk }}
- {{cite book |title=His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Doubleday |date=March 4, 2014 |isbn=978-0385532259 |url=https://archive.org/details/hisownselfsemime0000jenk }}
- {{cite book |title=Stick a Fork in Me: A Novel |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=Gallery Books |date=January 1, 2017 |isbn=978-1507201473}}
- {{cite book |title=The Reunion at Herb's Café |last=Jenkins |first=Dan |publisher=TCU Press |date=November 11, 2019 |isbn=978-0875657271}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070417023050/http://www.golfdigest.com/jenkins/ Dan Jenkins] on Golf Digest
- {{World Golf Hall of Fame|dan-jenkins}}
- [https://soundcloud.com/tcualumni/frog-for-life-podcast-dan-jenkins-53 Podcast with Dan Jenkins in September, 2018]
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