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The Best American Sports Writing (Paperback, 2007 ed.)
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The Best American Sports Writing (Paperback, 2007 ed.)
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List price R629
Loot Price R553
Discovery Miles 5 530
You Save R76 (12%)
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For fans of sports and just plain great writing, this absorbing
collection, featuring twenty-eight of the finest pieces from the
past year, has something for everyone. Guest editor David Maraniss,
a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, has assembled a
fresh crop of the people and stories that dominated the sports
world in 2006.
Michael Lewis gives a behind-the-scenes look at the legendary
football coach Bill Parcells. Bob Hohler delves in the murky waters
of modern amateur basketball, where teams blatantly dole out cash
to players and shoe companies set their sights on prospects as
young as twelve. William Rhoden traces the fate of an unknown filly
injured on the racetrack. Jeff MacGregor describes the
unforgettable Friars Club roast of boxing's provocative promoter
Don King. Daniel Coyle follows a forty-year-old Slovene soldier who
might be the world's best ultra-endurance athlete. L. Jon Wertheim
tells of a young pro-basketball player who found himself wrestling
the shoe bomber Richard Reid to the ground during a transatlantic
flight. And Derek Zumsteg provides a hilarious and utterly original
in-depth account of the baseball career of Bugs Bunny, "the
greatest banned player ever."
These pieces and many more go beyond the spotlight, revealing the
people and issues that make sports so relevant and important to all
of us.
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