The best American sports writing 2005 /
The best American sports writing 2005 /
edited and with an introduction by Mike Lupica ; Glenn Stout, series editor.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
- xxvi, 356 p. ; 21 cm.
Introduction / Running for their lives / Phat chants / Fatal errors / Eli experiment / Dreams, steroids, death : a ballplayer's downfall / How to catch fish in Vermont / Seeing snook / Making contact / Memorial / Wound and the bow / Five-second delay can't mute old voice / Lion in late, late autumn / Biggest fish story ever told / Field of broken dreams / Duel in the sun / Lethal catch / Great day for Arab Women / Barrage of bullets drowned out cries of comrades / Outside looking in / Man who made good / More than skin deep / Duke of Dunbar / Pride of Peabody / Man in the ice / Rayna's second season / Alive and kicking / Why we must listen / Sportsmen of the year / Spectacular, but sad / Biographical notes -- Notable sports writing of 2004. Mike Lupica -- Gary Smith -- Bill Plaschke -- Mark Zeigler -- Michael Lewis -- Mark Fainaru-Wada -- Pam Belluck -- Thomas McGuane -- Ira Berkow -- Sean Flynn -- David Shields -- Richard Sandomir -- Pat Jordan -- David DiBenedetto -- Andrew Miller -- John Brant -- Mark Kram -- Linda Robertson -- Steve Coll -- L. Jon Wertheim -- Wright Thompson -- Travis Haney -- Michael Hall -- Michael Bamberger -- Chris Jones -- Kevin Van Valkenburg -- Katy Vine -- Michael Rosenberg -- Tom Verducci -- Bill Reynolds --
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Sports--United States.
Sports literature--United States.
Introduction / Running for their lives / Phat chants / Fatal errors / Eli experiment / Dreams, steroids, death : a ballplayer's downfall / How to catch fish in Vermont / Seeing snook / Making contact / Memorial / Wound and the bow / Five-second delay can't mute old voice / Lion in late, late autumn / Biggest fish story ever told / Field of broken dreams / Duel in the sun / Lethal catch / Great day for Arab Women / Barrage of bullets drowned out cries of comrades / Outside looking in / Man who made good / More than skin deep / Duke of Dunbar / Pride of Peabody / Man in the ice / Rayna's second season / Alive and kicking / Why we must listen / Sportsmen of the year / Spectacular, but sad / Biographical notes -- Notable sports writing of 2004. Mike Lupica -- Gary Smith -- Bill Plaschke -- Mark Zeigler -- Michael Lewis -- Mark Fainaru-Wada -- Pam Belluck -- Thomas McGuane -- Ira Berkow -- Sean Flynn -- David Shields -- Richard Sandomir -- Pat Jordan -- David DiBenedetto -- Andrew Miller -- John Brant -- Mark Kram -- Linda Robertson -- Steve Coll -- L. Jon Wertheim -- Wright Thompson -- Travis Haney -- Michael Hall -- Michael Bamberger -- Chris Jones -- Kevin Van Valkenburg -- Katy Vine -- Michael Rosenberg -- Tom Verducci -- Bill Reynolds --
0618470204 (pbk.) 0618470190
Sports--United States.
Sports literature--United States.