The Best American Sports Writing 2003 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618251322)

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.

Buzz Bissinger selects the very best writing on a vast variety of competitive endeavors, from baseball to weightlifting, skating to demolition derby. Herein today's foremost journalists -- among them Gary Smith, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bill Plaschke, and Rebecca Mead -- throw revealing light on a pantheon of stars: Shaquille O'Neal, Bobby Fischer, Mike Tyson, the San Diego Chicken, and more.

Author: Glenn Stout, Buzz Bissinger
ISBN-10: 0618251324
ISBN-13: 9780618251322
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2003
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.52w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2003 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 09/22/2003 pg. 100