num_pages: 384
description: The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.The Best American Sports Writing 2005 includesMichael Lewis • Gary Smith • Steve Coll • Tom Verducci • Ira Berkow • Bill Plaschke • Linda Robertson • Michael Bamberger • L. Jon Wertheim • Thomas McGuane • John Brant • Pat Jordan • David DiBenedetto • and othersMike Lupica, guest editor, has been a columnist for the New York Daily News since 1977 and is the best-selling author of numerous books, including, most recently, Travel Team, a number one New York Times bestseller.Introduction / Mike Lupica --Running for their lives (from Sports Illustrated) / Gary Smith --Phat chants (from The Los Angeles Times) / Bill Plaschke --Fatal errors (from The San Diego Union-Tribune) / Mark Zeigler --Eli experiment (from The New York Times Magazine) / Michael Lewis --Dreams, steroids, death : a ballplayer's downfall (from The San Francisco Chronicle) / Mark Fainaru-Wada --How to catch fish in Vermont (from The New York Times) / Pam Belluck --Seeing snook (from Sports Illustrated) / Thomas McGuane --Making contact (from Chicago Magazine) / Ira Berkow --Memorial (from Golf Magazine) / Sean Flynn --Wound and the bow (from The Believer) / David Shields --Five-second delay can't mute old voice (from The New York Times) / Richard Sandomir --Lion in late, late autumn (from The New York Times Magazine) / Pat Jordan --Biggest fish story ever told (from Men's Journal) / David DiBenedetto --Field of broken dreams (from The Pitch) / Andrew Miller --Duel in the sun (from Runner's World) / John Brant --Lethal catch (from The Philadelphia Daily News) / Mark Kram --Great day for Arab Women (from The Miami Herald) / Linda Robertson --Barrage of bullets drowned out cries of comrades (from The Washington Post) / Steve Coll --Outside looking in (from Sports Illustrated) / L. Jon Wertheim --Man who made good (from The Kansas City Star) / Wright Thompson --More than skin deep (from The Anderson Independent-Mail) / Travis Haney --Duke of Dunbar (from Texas Monthly) / Michael Hall --Pride of Peabody (from Sports Illustrated) / Michael Bamberger --Man in the ice (from Esquire) / Chris Jones --Rayna's second season (from The Baltimore Sun) / Kevin Van Valkenburg --Alive and kicking (from Texas Monthly) / Katy Vine --Why we must listen (from The Detroit Free Press) / Michael Rosenberg --Sportsmen of the year (from Sports Illustrated) / Tom Verducci --Spectacular, but sad (from The Providence Journal) / Bill Reynolds --Biographical notes --Notable sports writing of 2004
language: English
title: The Best American Sports Writing 2005
titlecomplete: The Best American Sports Writing 2005
genres: Sports, Nonfiction, Anthologies
ratings_count: 92
publisher: Mariner Books