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The Best American Sports Writing 2016

by Rick Telander
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For more than twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has curated the year’s finest sports journalism. Continuing the tradition in a long line of notable guest editors is Rick Telander, acclaimed journalist, author, and champion of the written word. His choices are defined by one shared thread: effort, on the part of athletes and writers alike. The physical strength it takes to play professional hockey and football, or for a forty-two-year-old writer to learn how to dunk in six months. The mental and emotional toughness needed to turn around a losing team, or to speak out about a coach. The careful striving to make everything seem effortless. This edition encompasses it all.
The Best American Sports Writing 2016 includes Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham,  L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez,  Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, Brett Popplewell, Alexandra Starr, Wright Thompson and others
RICK TELANDER is a Chicago Sun-Times senior sports columnist and the Basketball Evangelist for Slam magazine. He has also written for Sports Illustrated and ESPN: The Magazine, and has been featured seven times in The Best American Sports Writing. He is the author of eight books, including Heaven Is a Playground and From Red Ink to Roses.
GLENN STOUT, series editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception, is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912.

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    Best American Sports Writing

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  • Release date

    January 17, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780544618466
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      • ISBN: 9780544618466
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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      October 15, 2016
      This year's edition reverses course from last year's, shifting from an emphatically online presence back to print. I feel, deeply, that something big is lost when the printed word is bypassed in favor of something technologically advanced, ' writes guest editor and Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Telander. So the collectionwhich features a nicely varied mix of sportsleads with Matt Calkins' droll, inspirational Seattle Times column on a fat man who reaches elite-level fitness by making a daily mantra of a Marshawn Lynch quote, I'm just 'bout that action, boss. (When told of the man's astonishing success, Lynch replies, That's gangsta. When then asked what he thinks of all that, Lynch replies, I just told you, then walks away.) Telander reprises four pieces from ESPN: The Magazine, including a touching profile of Ted Williams' daughter, Claudia, and a sickening, if informative, portrait of a feckless New England Patriots system. There are, surprisingly, two pieces on bicycling, including one on an unexpected romance forged between two outcasts by a love of the bike. Whether drawn from print or online media, this fine series abides.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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