A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian selects the 50 Best pieces of Sports Writing of the century, capturing the great moments in baseball, boxing, horse racing, golf, and tennis.
Series editor Glenn Stout has written biographies of Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson..
Guest editor David Halberstam is the author of The Reckoning, The Summer of Forty-Nine, The Breaks of the Game, and The Children.
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.
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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.
Liebling, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S.
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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.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian selects the 50 Best pieces of Sports Writing of the century, capturing the great moments in baseball, boxing, horse racing, golf, and tennis