The Best American Sports Writing of the Century

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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 "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. This outstanding collection captures not only the centurys 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 most recently The Children. Series editor Glenn Stout has written biographies of Joe DiMaggio Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson.