Best American Sports Writing 2003

Name: Best American Sports Writing 2003
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ISBN: 9780618251322

ISBN-10: 0618251324

ISBN-13: 9780618251322

Edition: 2003

Authors: Glenn Stout, Buzz Bissinger, Glenn Stout, Buzz Bissinger

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Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Buzz Bissinger selects the very best writing on a vast variety of competitive endeavors, from baseball to weightlifting, skating to demolition derby.…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Glenn Stout has been the series editor of "The Best American Sports Writing" since its inception & has written three illustrated biographies with Richard A. Johnson: "Ted Williams," "Joe DiMaggio," & "Jackie Robinson." He lives in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

Buzz Bissinger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller 3 Nights in August and Friday Night Lights , which has sold two million copies and inspired a film and TV franchise. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a sports columnist for The Daily Beast . He has written for the New York Times , The New Republic , Time and many other publications.



Foreword


Introduction



Lucky Jim 1 from GQ



Fowled Away 18 from The Los Angeles Times



The Ball 28 from Sports Illustrated



Baseball Without Metaphor 50 from The New York Times Magazine



The Lone Wolf 69 from Sports Illustrated



Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame 87 from The Atlantic Monthly Alexander Wolff with



When the Terror Began 111 from Sports Illustrated



Power Pact 133 from The Dallas Morning News



End of the Run 144 from Outside



Veteran Finds Greens Peace 155 from The Los Angeles Times



Good Karma, Bad Golf 162 from



Servant of the Cause 166 from Los Angeles



A Man-Child in Lotusland 184 from The New Yorker



Playing for Jud 204 from Witness



Race a Memorable First for Seventeenth Man 217 from The Seattle Times



Appetite for Destruction 222 from Phoenix New Times



Life Is a Contact Sport 235 from The New York Times Magazine



Rulon Gardner Wants a Third Helping 247 from



Gambling Man 258 from The Washington Post



"I Want to Kill Him" 274 from The Philadelphia Daily News



Out of Control 282 from ESPN: The Magazine



My Dad, the Bookie 293 from



The Birds at Oriole Park 302 from Washingtonian



His Role on Team Is Beyond Words 308 from The Akron Beacon



Of Sound and Ice 315 from The Washington Post Book World Biographical



Notes 321 Notable Sports Writing of 2002 325