| The Best American Sports Writing 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Nack, William (Author), Stout, Glenn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618751181 ISBN-13: 9780618751181 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the past year. Chosen from more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications, the twenty pieces here embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement. Contributors include Scott Price, Rick Bragg, Gary Smith, J.R. Moehringer, and others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Essays - Sports & Recreation | History - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - Essays & Writings |
| Dewey: 796.097 |
| Series: Best American Sports Writing |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.95 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this exciting new collection, William Nack, veteran sportswriter and author of the classic Secretariat, honors the year's finest sports journalism and thus upholds the tradition that began seventeen years ago, with David Halberstam at the helm. In these pages, you will find the most provocative, compelling, tragic, and triumphant moments in sports from 2007, captured by the knights of the keyboard who make sports come alive for us day after day, week after week, year after year. Here you'll find Paul Solotaroff's excellent and uncompromising take on the neglect that a growing number of crippled NFL players continually face from the NFL players' union. Jeanne Marie Laskas's "G-L-O-R-Y!" offers a rousing inside look at the pregame rituals of the Cincinnati Bengals cheerleaders. A riveting online diary by Wright Thompson reveals a bleak and merciless landscape in China, which that country's government would rather not have the world see during preparations for the Olympics. Nack finds a place for the fascinating offbeat story as well as the sensational. Alongside Eli Saslow's captivating article about an obscure seventeenth-century sport, similar to a giant rugby scrum, carried out in the streets of Kirkwall, Scotland, stands Franz Lidz's "scoop of the year," a controversial and rare look into the life of George Steinbrenner, baseball's largest but recently most enigmatic figure. This year's collection marks another wonderful addition to "one of the most consistently satisfying titles in the Best American series" (Booklist). Contributors include Scott Price, Rick Bragg, Gary Smith, J.R. Moehringer, and others. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stout, Glenn: - GLENN STOUTis the author of Young Woman and the Seaand Fenway 1912.Stout, Glenn: - GLENN STOUT is a freelance writer, author, and editorial consultant and has served as series editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception. He is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912, and has collaborated with Richard Johnson on Red Sox Century, Yankees Century, The Cubs and The Dodgers. Stout has lived in and around Boston for 20 years, and currently lives in Vermont. |