num_pages: 352
description: Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.Buzz Bissinger selects the very best writing on a vast variety of competitive endeavors, from baseball to weightlifting, skating to demolition derby. Herein today's foremost journalists -- among them Gary Smith, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bill Plaschke, and Rebecca Mead -- throw revealing light on a pantheon of Shaquille O'Neal, Bobby Fischer, Mike Tyson, the San Diego Chicken, and more.
language: English
title: The Best American Sports Writing 2003
titlecomplete: The Best American Sports Writing 2003
genres: Sports, Anthologies, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 63
publisher: Mariner Books