The best American sports writing of the century /

The best American sports writing of the century /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Halberstam, David, Stout, Glenn, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1999]
Subjects:
Sports stories.
Sports > Literary collections.
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.