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Best American Sports Writing 1996 Book

George Plimpton, that most peripatetic of sporting literati, takes the reins on the latest edition of sportswriting's annual all-star team, and lets these thoroughbreds run. As usual, the smart money is on Roger Angell, Rick Reilly, David Remnick, and Tom Boswell, all of whom are represented, and long-shot David Halberstam makes his comeback with a fascinating profile of a fencer. But the roses go to the real derby winner in this year's group, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford for his long, lyrical, sometimes funny, sometimes profound meditation from Sports Afield on, of all thought-provoking arenas, hunting with his wife.Read More

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    Now in its sixth year and well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest sportswriting of the past year with America's best-selling sportswriter in the guest editor's seat. Selected from more than 350 American and Canadian newspapers and magazines, the 1996 collection promises to live up to the standards set by the five popular previous volumes. This year's anthology features a wide variety of sports and sports figures - a hilarious expose of what really goes on at the Dallas Cowboys spring training camp, the sad story of heavyweight boxer Jerry Quarry and his losing battle with pugilistica dementia, a revealing portrait of "wild thing" Dennis Rodman, and an investigation of the incidence of violence committed by athletes against women. Sure to delight both the die-hard sports fan and the general reader alike, these thirty pieces capture the world of sport in all its majesty, humanity, and color.

  • 039570071X
  • 9780395700716
  • 25 November 1996
  • Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 355
  • 6
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