The Best American Sports Writing of the Century
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · June 16, 1999
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- Who it’s for
- Across sports and decades, celebrated journalists turn competition into some of the century’s finest writing.
- Themes
- Twentieth-century sports journalism, Major moments in sports
- Genres
- Sports Writing, Journalism, Baseball Essays
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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.
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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 The Children. Series editor Glenn Stout has written biographies of Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson.
More Than the Score
Across sports and decades, celebrated journalists turn competition into some of the century’s finest writing.
Come here for
- Classic sports journalism, from baseball and boxing to tennis and golf
- Distinctive voices, including Jimmy Cannon, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson
Expect
- A collection spanning the twentieth century’s defining sports moments
- Writing whose pleasures reach beyond the final score
Where it sits
| Sports Writing | 82% |
|---|---|
| Journalism | 31% |
| Baseball Essays | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Writing as a Career
- Writing Composition
- Fiction Writing
- Writing Nonfiction & Memoir
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- Journalism
- Sociolinguistics
- Semantics
- Word Origins
- Authors
- David Halberstam, Glenn Stout
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- June 16, 1999
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Twentieth-century sports journalism · Major moments in sports
- Reading lane
- Writing as a Career