The best American sports writing 2015
By: edited and with an introduction by Wright Thompson ; Glenn Stout, series editor
Series: The Best American series; Best American series
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780544340053
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Sports journalism; American essays; Sports literature; Sports
Description: For twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the past year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Wright Thompson, a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN: The Magazine, proves more than up to the task by curating this truly exceptional collection. The only shared trait among all these diverse stories is the extraordinarily high caliber of writing, but collectively they tap into the pure passion that can only come from sports.
Notes: "A Mariner original."
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- by Glenn Stout; title: Introduction  -- by Wright Thompson; title: Awakening the giant  -- Seth Wickersham; title: One thousand two hundred and fifty-eight pounds of sons  -- Chris Jones; title: The two Michael Sams  -- Joel Anderson; title: Thirteen ways of looking at Greg Maddux  -- Jeremy Collins; title: Being Tommy Morrison's son  -- Elizabeth Merrill; title: Money in the bank  -- Dan O'Sullivan; title: The rage of the squat king  -- Rick Bass; title: Haverford hoops  -- Chris Ballard; title: Precious memories  -- Tommy Tomlinson; title: Jerry Football  -- Don Van Natta Jr.; title: Broke and broken  -- Tim Graham; title: Sins of the preacher  -- Greg Hanlon; title: Run and gun  -- Flinder Boyd; title: Those Kansas City blues: a family history  -- Katie Baker; title: The sea of crises  -- Brian Phillips; title: In deep  -- Burkhard Bilger; title: Who wants to shoot an elephant?  -- Wells Tower; title: Breaking the waves  -- Ariel Levy; title: The year of the pigskin  -- Christopher Beam; title: No one walks off the island  -- Scott Eden; title: Peyton Manning leaves crushing Super Bowl loss with reputation intact -- Dan Wetzel.