Rules of the game : the best sports writing from Harper's magazine / preface by Roy Blount, Jr. ; introduction by Matthew Stevenson ; edited by Matthew Stevenson and Michael Martin.
The boys of winter / Rich Cohen. The final season / George Plimpton -- Down and out at Wrigley Field / Rich Cohen -- Obsessed with sport / Joseph Epstein -- The city game / Pete Axthelm -- Mens Sana in Corpore Sano / Tom Wolfe -- Tennessee lonesome end / Peter Schrag -- Find me a writer / Wilfrid Sheed -- Pilgrim's progress / Lewis H. Lapham -- These sporting poets / George Plimpton -- Hyperbole's child / A. Bartlett Giamatti -- It takes a stadium / Matthew Stevenson -- A Mickey Mantle koan / David James Duncan -- Winding up / Robert H. Zieger -- The story of the Davis Cup / John R. Tunis -- Hockey nights / Guy Lawson -- A poisoned Russian king / Nicholas Bethell -- No joy in Sorrento / Pat Jordan -- The national pastime / Tom Wolfe -- Time loves a haircut / Bill Cardoso -- Brains, baseball, and Branch Rickey / John Chamberlain -- It's only a game / Shirley Jackson -- Hunting the deceitful turkey / Mark Twain -- The biggest race track killing ever made / Leo Katcher -- Yachting at Keil / James B. Connolly -- Moscow games / George Plimpton -- The Cestus of Hygeia / Bernard DeVoto -- The jogger's prayer / Tom Wolfe -- Mudville / Lewis H. Lapham -- The boys of winter / Rich Cohen.
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