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02721aam a22003498i 4500 001 000AADA49C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 181101s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2018952817 020 $a 1598536125 020 $a 9781598536126 035 $a (OCoLC)1084319216 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d IEB $d TNH $d YDX $d UAP $d XII $d JTH $d VP@ $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a GV583 G6992x 2019 245 04 $a The great American sports page : $b a century of classic columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins / $c John Schulian, editor ; foreword by Charles P. Pierce. 246 30 $a Century of classic columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins 264 1 $a New York, N.Y. : $b Library of America, $c [2019] 300 $a xxv, 396 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Spanning nearly a century, The Great American Sports Page presents essential columns from more than three dozen masters of the press-box craft. These unforgettable dispatches from World Series, Super Bowls, and title bouts for the ages were written on deadline with passion, spontaneity, humor, and a gift for the memorable phrase. Read avidly day in and day out by a sports-mad public, these columnists became journalistic celebrities in their home cities, their coverage trusted and savored, their opinions hotly debated. Some even helped change the games they wrote about. Gathered here in a groundbreaking anthology, their writings capture some of sport's most enduring moments and many of its all-time greats: Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan among them. But the best American sportswriters also found ways to write powerfully about lesser-known athletes and to convey, often with heartbreaking honesty and insight, the less glamorous and more tragic facets of the games we love. In its survey of the finest American sportswriting from Ring Lardner to Thomas Boswell, from Red Smith and Jimmy Cannon to Bob Ryan and Michael Wilbon, The Great American Sports Page takes the measure of the human richness, complexity, and competitive spirit of sports and the athletes who continue to fascinate and inspire us."--Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Newspapers $x Sports. $x Sports. 650 0 $a American newspapers $x Sections, columns, etc. 650 0 $a Sports $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Sports journalism $z United States. 700 1 $a Schulian, John, $d 1945- $e editor. 941 $a 2 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722061748.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190702014451.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=000AADA49C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search