The best American sports writing 2005 - Stout, Glenn, 1958-; Lupica, Mike. (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
Introduction / Mike Lupica -- Running for their lives / Gary Smith -- Phat chants / Bill Plaschke -- Fatal errors / Mark Zeigler -- Eli experiment / Michael Lewis -- Dreams, steroids, death : a ballplayer's downfall / Mark Fainaru-Wada -- How to catch fish in Vermont / Pam Belluck -- Seeing snook / Thomas McGuane -- Making contact / Ira Berkow -- Memorial / Sean Flynn -- Wound and the bow / David Shields -- Five-second delay can't mute old voice / Richard Sandomir -- Lion in late, late autumn / Pat Jordan -- Biggest fish story ever told / David DiBenedetto -- Field of broken dreams / Andrew Miller -- Duel in the sun / John Brant -- Lethal catch / Mark Kram -- Great day for Arab Women / Linda Robertson -- Barrage of bullets drowned out cries of comrades / Steve Coll -- Outside looking in / L. Jon Wertheim -- Man who made good / Wright Thompson -- More than skin deep / Travis Haney -- Duke of Dunbar / Michael Hall -- Pride of Peabody / Michael Bamberger -- Man in the ice / Chris Jones -- Rayna's second season / Kevin Van Valkenburg -- Alive and kicking / Katy Vine -- Why we must listen / Michael Rosenberg -- Sportsmen of the year / Tom Verducci -- Spectacular, but sad / Bill Reynolds -- Biographical notes -- Notable sports writing of 2004.
Keywords: Sports -- United States; Sports literature -- United States