The best American sports writing 2000 /

The best American sports writing 2000 / edited and with an introduction by Dick Schaap ; Glenn Stout, series editor. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000. - xxiv, 320 p. ; 21 cm. - Annual - Best American sports writing series .

Foreword / Introduction / Stoorm warning / Enter the chicken / How I won the Minnesota statehouse, by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente as told to Garrison Keillor / Bottom of the ninth / His love never dies / He got a shot in the NBA-- and it went in / America is a bull / The birdman / Less than murder / Touch of Knievel / Joe DiMaggio would appreciate it very much if you'd leave him the hell alone / Up from the gutter / Ay caramba! the fish drink tequila like goatsuckers! / Peerless / Running like hell / Poker face / Blown away / Swimming with sharks / Terminal velocity / Clotheslined / The return of the white man / Soul survivor / Merv curls lead / Glenn Stout -- Dick Schaap -- Bryan Burrough from Vanity Fair -- Burkhard Bilger from Harper's magazine -- Garrison Keillor from the New York Times Magazine -- Charles P. Pierce from Esquire -- Rick Telander from the Chicago Sun-Times -- David Halberstam from the Los Angeles Times -- Jeanne Marie Laskas from Esquire -- Mark Levine from the New Yorker -- Jeff MacGregor from Sports Illustrated -- Allison Glock from GQ -- Robert Huber from Esquire -- Steve Friedman from Esquire -- Jonathan Miles from Sports Afield -- Daniel Coyle from Outside -- Michael Finkel from Women's Sports and Fitness -- James Hibberd from the Phoenix New Times -- Stephen Roderick from GQ -- Charles Sprawson from the New Yorker -- Craig Vetter from Outside -- Pat Toomay from SportsJones -- Matt Teague from Esquire -- David Wharton from the Los Angeles Times -- Guy Lawson from Saturday Night.

061809394X : $27.50 9780618093946


Sports--United States--Periodicals.
Sports stories, American.
Deportes--Estados Unidos
Deportes--Historia--América.

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