USA Today/Sports Weekly Best Baseball Writing 2005
Every year, a varied line-up of talented writers step up to the plate to find inspiration at the ballpark. The opportunity to view each passing season through the lens of such an array of talents and perspectives has prompted USA TODAY Sports Weekly to launch the first ever annual collection of the finest baseball writing of the year. Culled from newspapers, Web sites, books, and magazines, this book examines the major news and events of the seasonfrom Barry Bonds's quest for immortality amid steroid rumors to Randy Johnson's obtainment of it with a perfect game at age forty-oneas explored by such stellar reporters as Lisa Winston, Bob Nightengale, Buster Olney, Bob Ryan, and Rob Neyer. Sports Weekly editor Paul White also chooses samples of the year's best writing about the game's past, shedding new light on some of its most cherished teams and players: Leigh Montville's biography of Ted Williams and Jeff Pearlman's The Bad Guys Won, an expose of the raucous '86 world champion Mets, to name just two examples. USA TODAY Sports Weekly's Best Baseball Writing 2005 marks the beginning of what will be an eagerly awaited annual event for baseball fans and enthusiasts of superlative sports writing."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0786715014
ISBN13:9780786715015
Release Date:January 2005
Publisher:Da Capo Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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Excellent Contemporary Baseball Writing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Sometimes with baseball we tend to get too nostalgic, and sometimes we fall into the same trap with baseball writers. Well, this book provides an array of contemporary baseball writing that is also outstanding. There are truly many fine baseball writers today--including Bill Madden, Paul White, and David Pietrusza, just to name a few--and editors Matt Silverman and Greg Spira have done a fine job in collecting their works from the last two years. The writing contained in this volume includes a nice mix of articles on baseball history (such as Chris Lamb's story on Jackie Robinson's first spring training camp in 1946) and on current-day issues (such as John Thorn's assessment of Barry Bonds). Silverman and Spira, two knowledgeable baseball people themselves, have provided a wide range of topics and subjects, making this book appealing to a broad audience of baseball and literary fans. I hope that Best Baseball Writing becomes an annual staple of the baseball bookshelves.
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