The Best American Sports Writing 2015
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Format: Book
Description: xxv, 370 pages ; 21 cm.
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, many times included in this volume over the years, takes his turn at the helm by curating this exceptional collection. The only shared trait among these diverse pieces is the extraordinarily high caliber of writing, but collectively they tap into the pure passion that can only come from sports. And for all aspiring sports writers, says Thompson, "these selections are both road map and compass."
The Best American Sports Writing 2015 includes
Don Van Natta Jr., Chris Ballard, Katie Baker, Christopher Beam, Wells Tower, Seth Wickersham, Ariel Levy
and others
WRIGHT THOMPSON, guest editor, started his sports writing career as a student at the University of Missouri, where he covered sports for the Columbia Missourian. He interned at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and worked as the LSU beat writer. He then moved to the Kansas City Star, where he covered a wide variety of sports. In 2006 he joined ESPN.com and ESPN: The Magazine as a senior writer. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
GLENN STOUT, series editor for The Best American Sports Writing since its inception, is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912. He serves as the long-form editor for SB Nation and lives in Alburgh, Vermont.
The Best American Sports Writing 2015 includes
Don Van Natta Jr., Chris Ballard, Katie Baker, Christopher Beam, Wells Tower, Seth Wickersham, Ariel Levy
and others
WRIGHT THOMPSON, guest editor, started his sports writing career as a student at the University of Missouri, where he covered sports for the Columbia Missourian. He interned at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and worked as the LSU beat writer. He then moved to the Kansas City Star, where he covered a wide variety of sports. In 2006 he joined ESPN.com and ESPN: The Magazine as a senior writer. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
GLENN STOUT, series editor for The Best American Sports Writing since its inception, is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912. He serves as the long-form editor for SB Nation and lives in Alburgh, Vermont.
Series: Best American series.
Other Authors:
Thompson, Wright, editor.
Wickersham, Seth. Awakening the giant.
Jones, Chris. One thousand two hundred and fifty-eight pounds of sons.
Anderson, Joel. Two Michael Sams.
Collins, Jeremy. Thirteen ways of looking at Greg Maddux.
Merrill, Elizabeth. Being Tommy Morrison's son.
O'Sullivan, Dan. Money in the bank.
Bass, Rick. Rage of the Squat King.
Ballard, Chris. Haverford hoops.
Tomlinson, Howard M. (Howard Malone). Precious memories.
Van Natta, Don, 1964- Jerry Football.
Thompson, Wright, editor.
Wickersham, Seth. Awakening the giant.
Jones, Chris. One thousand two hundred and fifty-eight pounds of sons.
Anderson, Joel. Two Michael Sams.
Collins, Jeremy. Thirteen ways of looking at Greg Maddux.
Merrill, Elizabeth. Being Tommy Morrison's son.
O'Sullivan, Dan. Money in the bank.
Bass, Rick. Rage of the Squat King.
Ballard, Chris. Haverford hoops.
Tomlinson, Howard M. (Howard Malone). Precious memories.
Van Natta, Don, 1964- Jerry Football.
Contents:
Foreword / by Glenn Stout -- Introduction / by Wright Thompson -- Awakening the giant / Seth Wickersham -- One thousand two hundred and fifty-eight pounds of sons / Chris Jones -- The two Michael Sams / Joel Anderson -- Thirteen ways of looking at Greg Maddux / Jeremy Collins -- Being Tommy Morrison's son / Elizabeth Merrill -- Money in the bank / Dan O'Sullivan -- The rage of the squat king / Rick Bass -- Haverford hoops / Chris Ballard -- Precious memories / Tommy Tomlinson -- Jerry Football / Don Van Natta Jr. -- Broke and broken / Tim Graham -- Sins of the preacher / Greg Hanlon -- Run and gun / Flinder Boyd -- Those Kansas City blues: a family history / Katie Baker -- The sea of crises / Brian Phillips -- In deep / Burkhard Bilger -- Who wants to shoot an elephant? / Wells Tower -- Breaking the waves / Ariel Levy -- The year of the pigskin / Christopher Beam -- No one walks off the island / Scott Eden -- Peyton Manning leaves crushing Super Bowl loss with reputation intact / Dan Wetzel.
Subjects:
Sports literature -- United States.
Sports -- United States.
Sports journalism -- United States.
Sports literature -- United States.
Sports -- United States.
Sports journalism -- United States.
ISBN:
9780544340053
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SPORTS Bes 2016 | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |