The twentieth century treasury of sports /

The twentieth century treasury of sports /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Silverman, Al, Silverman, Brian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 1992.
Subjects:
Sports > Literary collections.
American literature > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Agincourt and after / Roger Angell
  • The rookie / Eliot Asinof
  • Love me, love my bear / Russell Baker
  • The fight : Patterson vs. Liston / James Baldwin
  • The four-minute mile / Roger Bannister
  • Seaside golf / John Betjeman
  • The ambivalence of ivory / H.G. Bissinger
  • Mr. Jack Nicklaus / Tom Boswell
  • Hey, ball four / Jim Bouton
  • The Hector Quesadilla story / T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • After the applause / Bill Bradley
  • The good life of Mr. Fitz / Jimmy Breslin
  • Archie / Jimmy Cannon
  • The death of Manolete / Barnaby Conrad
  • George Ruth's first day as a professional / Robert W. Creamer
  • The knee / Robert Daley
  • The depression baby / Frank Deford
  • Game day / Don DeLillo
  • The bee / James Dickey
  • Goalies are different / Ken Dryden
  • The masked playboy vs. the grim reaper / Stanley Elkin
  • The battle royal / Ralph Ellison
  • Idols and obsessions / Frederick Exley
  • Kentucky : May : Saturday / William Faulkner
  • The bowl / F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Sympathy for the devil / Joe Flaherty
  • At the Lido Gym / Leonard Gardner
  • The ancient mariner / Brian Glanville
  • Requiem for a globetrotter / Peter Goldman
  • Cruncher / Sandy Grady
  • The catch / Arnold Hano
  • Labor Day doubleheader / Mark Harris
  • Fighter's wife / W.C. Heinz
  • Better hurt than dead / Ed Hinton
  • Fool / John Huston
  • The coach speaketh / Dan Jenkins
  • The tryout / Pat Jordan
  • The ten years of Jackie Robinson / Roger Kahn
  • Going for a perfect game / William Kennedy
  • Brooklyn August / Stephen King
  • 400-meter freestyle / Maxine Kumin
  • Wills vs. Lenglen / Al Laney
  • The roller derby / John Lardner
  • Champion / Ring Lardner
  • Decathlon man / Primo Levi
  • Donnybrook Farr / A.J. Liebling
  • The kid's last game / Ed Linn
  • Is Connors a killer? / Robert Lipsyte
  • The waves at Waikiki / Jack London
  • Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías / Federico García Lorca
  • Ego / Norman Mailer
  • Helpful hints / Jim Murray
  • A coming of age / William Nack
  • Fixer's home / Jay Neugeboren
  • Rape and the boxing ring / Joyce Carol Oates
  • Sadaharu Oh's final bow / Sadaharu Oh and David Falkner
  • The sporting spirit / George Orwell
  • Bear Bryant's miracles / Richard Price
  • Pride and poison / Linda Robertson
  • Oh, to be a center fielder / Philip Roth
  • Bred for battle / Damon Runyon
  • Champions / Bill Russell
  • The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw
  • Miracle of Coogan's bluff / Red Smith
  • Fight to live / Al Stump
  • Hockey miracle / E.M. Swift
  • The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese
  • Foster Park / Rick Telander
  • England! England! / Rose Tremain
  • Poem for my father / Quincy Troupe
  • The mother of a champion / John R. Tunis
  • My fights with Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney
  • How clear a green the grass was / Anne Tyler
  • Farrell's caddie / John Updike
  • October in Miami, Ohio / Mark Winegardner
  • At Galway Races / W.B. Yeats.