Norton Book of Sports | 
 enlarge | Creator: George Plimpton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1125923
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 492
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0393030407
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.80355
EAN: 9780393030402
ASIN: 0393030407
Publication Date: May 1, 1992
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You know the old desert island game that lets you pick only one book as company for the rest of your days? Most folks pick the Bible or Shakespeare, but if sports are your game, you'll need go no further than this sports anthology. Sure, there are better collections of golf and baseball, but no one book sweeps across the vast landscape of the sporting scene with such breadth--and depth--as this lively, essential volume. It begins with a terrific essay by the peripatetic Plimpton riffing on his "Small Ball" theory, and just gets better from there. You want a heavyweight lineup? How's about one that includes Mark Twain, Donald Hall, A.J. Liebling, Sir Edmund Hillary, John McPhee, Roger Angell, the Wolfes (Tom and Thomas), James Joyce, Carl Sandburg, Maxine Kumin, Ring Lardner, John Updike, Red Smith, Gay Talese, and Robert Penn Warren? You want all-star selections? How's about William Hazlitt's "The Fight," Roger Kahn's "The Crucial Role Fear Plays in Sports," Wilfred Sheed's "The Old Man and the Tee," Tom McGuane's "The Longest Silence," Paul Gallico's "The Feel," and Updike's monumental "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu." With stuff like that for company, you just might look forward to the marooning. --Jeff Silverman
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A great sports book. September 3, 2005
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This is a master work of editing. There are dozens of stories, both fiction and non-fiction that are the best of their kind. Topping the List is Tom Wolfe's The Last American Hero about auto racer Junior Johnson. Edmund Hillary's tale of his trip up Mount Everest is fascinating as is Bill Russell's inside story of clutch players and cowards in the NBA. Of the hundreds of sports books I have read this is one of the two best. The other being a similar anthology by Al and Brian Silverman.
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