The Best American Sports Writing 1998

by William Littlefield, Glenn Stout

Overview

Chosen from more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications, this eighth edition of The Best American Sports Writing once again brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the last year.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395797648
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/30/1998
Series:	Best American Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

William (Bill) Littlefield is the author of a novel and several books of sports essays, including Champions: the Stories of Ten Remarkable Athelets and Keepers: Radio Stories from "Only a Game" and Elsewhere and is the host of National Public Radio's Only a Game. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts, with his family.

Glenn Stout is a writer, author, and editor, and served as series editor of The Best American Sports Writing, and founding editor of The Year’s Best Sports Writing. He is also the author of Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, Fenway 1912, Nine Months at Ground Zero, and many other award-winning and best-selling books. He also served as a consultant on the Disney+ film adaptation of Young Woman and the Sea. Stout lives in Lake Champlain in Vermont.

Editorial Reviews

"This American sports writing series is a venerable institution." Boston Globe —

From the Publisher

A must for any sports fan.

Kirkus Reviews

This American sports writing series is a venerable institution.

The Boston Globe

Since 1991, this yearly collection has mixed the work of the usual suspects with unknown surprises--the best of the larger glossies with less-celebrated regional reporting. Guest editor Littlefield (Keepers, LJ 8/98) has mercifully chosen slightly fewer Tiger Woods pieces than last year's Tiger-heavy gathering while also picking another funny and original bullfighting piece by Tony Hendra. In "Blonde and Sand," Hendra turns all of the sport's macho-phallic cliches upside down while pondering the sexual significance of Spain's first woman matador; in "The Hit King," Scott Raab captures the prideful, shabby exile of the great Pete Rose; David Remnick's "Kid Dynamite Blows Up" is the most drolly nuanced account of the Tyson-Holyfield rematch in Las Vegas; Elwood Reid tells the painful story of his wrecked-up football body in "My Body, My Weapon, My Shame"; and David James Duncan sings the unlikely praises of "Bird-Watching as a Blood Sport." Although this anthology is never as good as you want it to be, it's recommended for large sports and essay colections.--Nathan Ward, "Library Journal"

Library Journal