The best American sports writing of the century
By: edited by David Halberstam ; Glenn Stout, series editor.
Contributors: Halberstam, David.; Stout, Glenn.; McGuane, Thomas.
Edition: Advance reading copy.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 786
Subjects: Sports stories; Sports -- Literary collections
Genres: Literary collections.
Other titles: Best American sports writing.
Notes: Biographical notes (p. 763-772).

Notable sports writing of the century (p. 773-776).
Table of contents: title: The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese; title: The last American hero / Tom Wolfe; title: What do you think of Ted Williams now? / Richard Ben Cramer; title: The day Bobby blew it / Brad Darrach; title: Sport for art's sake / Heywood Broun; title: The Olympic army / Westbrook Pegler; title: Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine; title: Game called / Grandland Rice; title: All the way to the grave / Frank Graham; title: Next to godliness ; Miracle of Coogan's Bluff ; Jim and his baubles ; The Baby was always a boy; title: one of a kind ; And all Dizzy's yesterdays / Red Smith; title: One strike is out / Stanley Woodward; title: Sal Maglie; title: a gracious man / Murray Kempton; title: Obit on the Dodgers / Dick Young; title: If you're expecting one-liners / Jim Murray; title: Oh, no! Not another boring interview with Steve Carlton / Diane K. Shah; title: The LaMotta nuptials / Ira Berkow; title: "A very solid book" / Mike Royko; title: Eckie / Ring Lardner; title: Lethal lightning / Jimmy Cannon; title: Brownsville bum / W.C. Heinz; title: Mr. Rickey and the game / Gerald Holland; title: The rocky road of Pistol Pete ; The ghost of the gridiron / W.C. Heinz; title: Lone wolf of tennis  / Dick Schaap; title: "The Haig": rowdy rebel of the fairways / John Lardner; title: Racing's angriest young man / Jimmy Breslin; title: Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike; title: The fight to live / Al Stump; title: A rough time on the road / Stan Fischler; title: The longest silence / Thomas McGuane; title: The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved / Hunter S. Thompson; title: Centre court / John McPhee; title: Butkus / Arthur Kretchmer; title: Gone for good / Roger Angell; title: There was only one Casey / Wells Twombley; title: Pain ; No más / Tom Boswell; title: Medora goes to the game / George Plimpton; title: The rabbit hunter ; The boxer and the blonde / Frank Deford; title: The September song of Mr. October / David Remnick; title: A brother's keeper / Mike Lupica; title: Pure heart / William Nack; title: The making of a goon / Johnette Howard; title: The power and the glory / Paul Solotaroff; title: Tangled up in blue / Peter Richmond; title: The chosen one / Gary Smith; title: Into thin air / Jon Krakauer; title: Resurrecting the champ / J.R. Moehringer; title: The champ and the chump / Murray Kempton; title: Muhammad Ali then and now / Dick Schaap; title: Ego / Norman Mailer; title: Weird site for a fight / Jim Murray; title: "Lawdy, lawdy, he's great" / Mark Kram; title: My dinner with Ali / Davis Miller.