Darryl Dawkins: Manchild in the Promised Land, 1980

[Pete Dexter of the Philadelphia Daily News was one of America’s great newspaper columnists of the 1970s through the 1980s. But in December 1981, Dexter famously got roughed up outside a Center City bar by a band of tough guys wielding baseball bats (or, some say, pool cues) and a grudge over his recent column about a drug deal-gone-wrong. This bloody n…