The best American sports writing 2006
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780618470228
Subjects: American essays; Sports
Description: Includes articles chosen from magazines and newspapers on topics ranging from bullfighting to basketball, baseball, and boxing.
Notes: Annual.

Editors vary.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: There is nothing special about Kyle Maynard  -- Paul Solotaroff; title: Desire without end  -- Jeff Duncan; title: The girl  -- Kurt Streeter; title: Flipping out  -- Pamela Colloff; title: Dirty moves  -- James Brown; title: Driving lessons  -- Steve Friedman; title: Card stud  -- Pat Jordan; title: A tormented soul  -- Greg Garber; title: Stealing time  -- David Grann; title: Standing still  -- Dan Koeppel; title: Fallen angel  -- Steve Oney; title: The sprinter  -- S.L. Price; title: Saved by sports  -- L. Jon Wertheim; title: The unnatural natural  -- J.R. Moehringer; title: The cult of the general manager  -- Neal Pollack; title: What goes ninety-five miles per hour for seventeen days straight through mud, sand, high-speed smash-ups, and marauding bandits?  -- Jonathan Miles; title: The shadow boxer  -- Gary Smith; title: She's here. She's queer. She's fired  -- Pamela Colloff; title: So you wanna be a cowboy?  -- Ben Paynter; title: Mom's the word  -- Jeff Pearlman; title: XXL  -- Linda Robertson; title: Clang!  -- Michael Sokolove; title: Brooklyn Heights  -- Katy Vine; title: The magician  -- Pat Jordan; title: Making the time count  -- Kurt Streeter; title: Raising the dead  -- Tim Zimmermann; title: A (fishing) hole in one -- Charlie Schroeder.