The best American sports writing of the century / edited by David Halberstam ; Glenn Stout, series editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halberstam, David.

Stout, Glenn, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports stories.

Sports--Literary collections.

Sports.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Physical Description:

776 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1999]

Summary:

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Halberstam selects the fifty best pieces of sports writing of this century. The Best American Sports Writing of the Century showcases the best sports journalists of the twentieth century, from Jimmy Cannon, Red Smith, William Mack, Gary Smith, and Frank Deford to A. J. Liebling, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson, and includes such classics as "What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?" by Richard Ben Cramer, "Louis Knocks Out Schmeling" by Bob Considine, and "The Rocky Road of Pistol Pete" by W. C. Heinz. This outstanding collection captures not only the century's greatest moments in baseball, boxing, horseracing, golf, and tennis, but some of the finest writing of our time. Guest editor David Halberstam is the author of The Reckoning, The Summer of Forty-Nine, The Breaks of the Game, and, most recently, The Children. Series editor Glenn Stout has written biographies of Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson.

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.

Notes:

Biographical notes (p. 763-772).

Notable sports writing of the century (p. 773-776).

ISBN:

0395945135

0395945143

OCLC:

41481155