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Title:

The only game in town : sportswriting from the New Yorker / edited by David Remnick.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiv, 492 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Sports--United States.
Sports stories, American.
Sports literature--United States.

Other Authors:

Remnick, David.

Other Titles:

New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)

Contents:

A stud's life / Kevin Conley. From the bleachers: The Web of the game / Roger Angell -- Ahab and Nemesis / A.J. Liebling -- Hub fans bid Kid adieu / John Updike -- The only game in town / Anthony Lane -- Race track / Bill Barich -- Immortals. A sense of where you are / John McPhee -- El único matador / Lillian Ross -- Net worth / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- The long ride / Micheal Specter -- Born slippy / John Seabrook -- The chosen one / David Owen -- Legend of the sport / Aliva Johnston -- A man-child in Lotusland / Rebecca Mead -- Personal best. Dangerous game / Nick Paumgarten -- The running novelist / Haruki Murankami -- Back to the basement / Nancy Franklin -- Playing Doc's game / William Finnegan -- Last of the Metroziods / Adam Gopnik -- The Sandy Frazier dream team / Ian Frazier -- A deeper game. Br'er Rabbit ball / Ring Lardner -- The greens of Ireland / Herbert Warren Wind -- Tennis personalities / Martin Amis -- Project knuckleball / Ben McGrath -- Game plan / Don DeLillo -- The art of failure / Malcolm Gladwell -- Out of left field. Swimming with sharks / Charles Sprawson -- The national pastime / John Cheever -- SNO / Calvin Trillin -- Musher / Susan Orleans -- Home and away / Peter Hessler -- No obstacles / Alec Wilkinson -- A stud's life / Kevin Conley.

Series:

The New Yorker anthology series

ISBN:

1400068029 (alk. paper)
9781400068029 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)437298767

LCCN:

2009040009

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

YWPD162 -- Tipton Public Library (Tipton)