An edition of The best American sports writing of the century
(1999)
The best American sports writing of the century
by David Halberstam and Glenn Stout
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The best American sports writing of the century
1999, Houghton Mifflin Co.
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Table of Contents
The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese
The last American hero / Tom Wolfe
What do you think of Ted Williams now? / Richard Ben Cramer
The day Bobby blew it / Brad Darrach
Sport for art's sake / Heywood Broun
The Olympic army / Westbrook Pegler
Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine
Game called / Grandland Rice
All the way to the grave / Frank Graham
Next to godliness ; Miracle of Coogan's Bluff ; Jim and his baubles ; The Baby was always a boy
one of a kind ; And all Dizzy's yesterdays / Red Smith
One strike is out / Stanley Woodward
Sal Maglie
a gracious man / Murray Kempton
Obit on the Dodgers / Dick Young
If you're expecting one-liners / Jim Murray
Oh, no! Not another boring interview with Steve Carlton / Diane K. Shah
The LaMotta nuptials / Ira Berkow
"A very solid book" / Mike Royko
Eckie / Ring Lardner
Lethal lightning / Jimmy Cannon
Brownsville bum / W.C. Heinz
Mr. Rickey and the game / Gerald Holland
The rocky road of Pistol Pete ; The ghost of the gridiron / W.C. Heinz
Lone wolf of tennis / Dick Schaap
"The Haig": rowdy rebel of the fairways / John Lardner
Racing's angriest young man / Jimmy Breslin
Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike
The fight to live / Al Stump
A rough time on the road / Stan Fischler
The longest silence / Thomas McGuane
The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved / Hunter S. Thompson
Centre court / John McPhee
Butkus / Arthur Kretchmer
Gone for good / Roger Angell
There was only one Casey / Wells Twombley
Pain ; No más / Tom Boswell
Medora goes to the game / George Plimpton
The rabbit hunter ; The boxer and the blonde / Frank Deford
The September song of Mr. October / David Remnick
A brother's keeper / Mike Lupica
Pure heart / William Nack
The making of a goon / Johnette Howard
The power and the glory / Paul Solotaroff
Tangled up in blue / Peter Richmond
The chosen one / Gary Smith
Into thin air / Jon Krakauer
Resurrecting the champ / J.R. Moehringer
The champ and the chump / Murray Kempton
Muhammad Ali then and now / Dick Schaap
Ego / Norman Mailer
Weird site for a fight / Jim Murray
"Lawdy, lawdy, he's great" / Mark Kram
My dinner with Ali / Davis Miller.
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