Now in paperback, the definitive anthology about the sport that dominates our culture: Since football’s meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century, the standout writers on the sportan All-Pro line-up
A first-of-its-kind celebration of the newspaper scribes who made sportswriting a glorious popular art, and immortalized America's greatest games and athletesSpanning nearly a century, The Great Ameri
"Shut down all the sportswriting classes and seminars and workshops and hand out this book instead. Lardner is all you need."---Rick Reilly, ESPN the Magazine columnist, author of Hate Maid from Cheer
American writers have been fascinated by the ring, both the primal contest inside the ropes and the crazy carnival world outside them. From neighborhood gyms and smoke-filled arenas to star-studded c