Home Back

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.5408
EAN: 9780618751181
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0618751181
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: October 08, 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Studio: Houghton Mifflin

---

Related Items:

• The Best American Short Stories 2008
• The Best American Travel Writing 2008 (The Best American Series)
• The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 (The Best American Series)
• The Best American Essays 2008 (The Best American Series)
• The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (The Best American Series)
• see more

---

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
In this exciting new collection, William Nack, veteran sportswriter and author of the classic Secretariat, honors the year's finest sports journalism and thus upholds the tradition that began seventeen years ago, with David Halberstam at the helm. In these pages, you will find the most provocative, compelling, tragic, and triumphant moments in sports from 2007, captured by the knights of the keyboard who make sports come alive for us day after day, week after week, year after year.

Here you'll find Paul Solotaroff's excellent and uncompromising take on the neglect that a growing number of crippled NFL players continually face from the NFL players' union. Jeanne Marie Laskas's "G-L-O-R-Y!" offers a rousing inside look at the pregame rituals of the Cincinnati Bengals cheerleaders. A riveting online diary by Wright Thompson reveals a bleak and merciless landscape in China, which that country's government would rather not have the world see during preparations for the Olympics.

Nack finds a place for the fascinating offbeat story as well as the sensational. Alongside Eli Saslow's captivating article about an obscure seventeenth-century sport, similar to a giant rugby scrum, carried out in the streets of Kirkwall, Scotland, stands Franz Lidz's "scoop of the year," a controversial and rare look into the life of George Steinbrenner, baseball's largest but recently most enigmatic figure.

This year's collection marks another wonderful addition to "one of the most consistently satisfying titles in the Best American series" (Booklist).
Contributors include Scott Price, Rick Bragg, Gary Smith, J.R. Moehringer, and others.




Rating: - Your Father's Sports Anthology
I'm not a big sports fan but I do appreciate good writing and so I look at each year's Best American Sports Writing. The Best American Sports Writing 2006 (The Best American Series) guest edited by Michael Lewis, was outstanding and so I can't help but compare subsequent collections to that one. It contained well-written stories about unusual sports (the Paris-Dakar Rally, women's boxing, gay rodeo) and addressed some serious issues, such as the high incidence of brain injuries mong football players ... Read More

---

Rating: - New Sportswriting Anthology
The editor, William Nack did a good job of foraging for the best sports stories of the year. I enjoyed it and have adopted the book in my Sports Writing class.

---

Rating: - Top Sports Book of the Year
This collection delivers in every way. Covering a vast array of personalities and across all sports, it will not soon be rivalled.

---

Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •