The Best American Sports Writing 2019

by Charles P. Pierce (Editor), Glenn Stout (Editor)

Overview

The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year

For over twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the previous year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Each year, the series editor and guest editor curates a truly exceptional collection. The only shared traits among all these diverse styles, voices, and stories are the extraordinarily high caliber of writing, and the pure passion they tap into that can only come from sports.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781328507853
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Series:	Best American Sports Writing Series
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	648,355
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

CHARLES P. PIERCE: Introduction
WRIGHT THOMPSON: When Winter Never Ends
SAM MILLER: The Aging Curve
JACKIE MACMULLAN: When Making the NBA Isn’t a Cure-All: Mental Health and Black Athletes
CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON: A Terror Way Beyond Falling
JOHN BRANCH: Children of the Cube
BONNIE D. FORD: Holding Her Own
LOUISA THOMAS: Game Plan
KERRY HOWLEY: Everyone Believed Larry Nassar
BETH DAVIES-STOFKA: Winning at the Cost of Silence
HEATHER DINICH, ADAM RITTENBERG, and TOM VANHAAREN: The Inside Story of a Toxic Culture at Maryland Football
VIRGNIA OTTLEY CRAIGHILL: The Lost Cause
CAITY WEAVER: My Magical Quest to Destroy Tom Brady and Win a Philadelphia Eagles Mini-Fridge at Super Bowl LII
JEFF MACGREGOR: Taming the Lionfish
CLAY SKIPPER: Joel Embiid Is Seven Feet Tall and Rising
NATHAN FENNO: A Killing Still Unresolved
BOB HOHLER and PATRICIA WEN: Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football, Inc., Part One: The Secrets Behind the Smile
NICK HEIL: Is Kilian Jornet for Real?
KATHRYN MILES: Is This Man a Victim?
ABE STREEP: What the Arlee Warriors Were Playing For
TIM LAYDEN: Fists of Fury
KIM CROSS: The Redemption of Artis Monroe
JOHN M. GLIONNA: Who’s Lookin’ for a Fight?
MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD: Another Voyage for Madmen (And, This Time, One Woman)
JEFF JACKSON: Paradox of Paradise
 

Editorial Reviews

08/26/2019

In this excellent edition, series editor Stout posits, with tongue in cheek, that journalism’s wobbly future will necessitate a switch to “Paylance”—writers will pay to get published. Esquire writer Pierce (Idiot America), who has expertly covered politics and sports for decades, laments the demise of a lost art. Fortunately, those conditions do not prevent another outstanding collection from being assembled. This great mix of essays shines a spotlight on all aspects of the human condition, whether it’s in a New York Magazine piece by Kerry Howley on how meek physician Larry Nassar engendered trust among the parents of the female gymnasts he sexually assaulted for years, or how California inmate Artis Monroe found happiness by giving old bicycles new life in Kim Cross’s essay for Bicycling. The volume also includes several funny and irreverent essays, such as GQ’s Caity Weaver’s scavenger hunt in Minnesota’s U.S. Bank Stadium, related in “My Magical Quest to Destroy Tom Brady and Win a Philadelphia Eagles Mini-Fridge at Super Bowl LII.” The quality of the writing and diversity of the subjects will delight readers and inspire and enlighten the next generation of writers. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"Outstanding . . . This great mix of essays shines a spotlight on all aspects of the human condition . . . The quality of the writing and diversity of the subjects will delight readers and inspire and enlighten the next generation of writers." —Publishers Weekly "First-rate . . . As ever, a must for the sports collection." —Booklist —

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