Best American Sports Writing Of The Century; Editor: Halberstam, David; Editor: Stout, Glenn; Hardback; Book

Editor: Halberstam, David; Editor: Stout, Glenn
Best American Sports Writing (Hardcover); Hardback; Book
512 pages
Published: March 2001
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0395945135
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Halberstam selects the fifty best pieces of sports writing of this century. 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 WhatDo 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. 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 SummSpotlights some of the century's great moments in sports, in works by Red Smith, Damon Runyon, Frank Deford, John Updike, Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Considine, and A. J. Liebling.