TY - BOOK AU - Stout,Glenn AU - Schaap,Dick TI - The best American sports writing 2000 SN - 061809394X : U1 - 796/.0973 PY - 2000/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Sports KW - United States KW - Periodicals KW - Sports stories, American KW - Deportes KW - Estados Unidos KW - Historia KW - América N1 - Foreword; Glenn Stout --; Introduction; Dick Schaap --; Stoorm warning; Bryan Burrough from Vanity Fair --; Enter the chicken; Burkhard Bilger from Harper's magazine --; How I won the Minnesota statehouse, by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente as told to Garrison Keillor; Garrison Keillor from the New York Times Magazine --; Bottom of the ninth; Charles P. Pierce from Esquire --; His love never dies; Rick Telander from the Chicago Sun-Times --; He got a shot in the NBA-- and it went in; David Halberstam from the Los Angeles Times --; America is a bull; Jeanne Marie Laskas from Esquire --; The birdman; Mark Levine from the New Yorker --; Less than murder; Jeff MacGregor from Sports Illustrated --; Touch of Knievel; Allison Glock from GQ --; Joe DiMaggio would appreciate it very much if you'd leave him the hell alone; Robert Huber from Esquire --; Up from the gutter; Steve Friedman from Esquire --; Ay caramba! the fish drink tequila like goatsuckers!; Jonathan Miles from Sports Afield --; Peerless; Daniel Coyle from Outside --; Running like hell; Michael Finkel from Women's Sports and Fitness --; Poker face; James Hibberd from the Phoenix New Times --; Blown away; Stephen Roderick from GQ --; Swimming with sharks; Charles Sprawson from the New Yorker --; Terminal velocity; Craig Vetter from Outside --; Clotheslined; Pat Toomay from SportsJones --; The return of the white man; Matt Teague from Esquire --; Soul survivor; David Wharton from the Los Angeles Times --; Merv curls lead; Guy Lawson from Saturday Night ER -