Name: Best American Sports Writing 2020 (The Best American Series ®)
Price: 13.34 USD
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Rating: 4.8 (17 reviews)

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The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year.

For over twenty-five years,
The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the previous year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Each year, the series editor and guest editor curate a truly exceptional collection. The only shared traits among all these diverse styles, voices, and stories are the extraordinarily high caliber of writing, and the pure passion they tap into that can only come from sports.



Review


This, the final planned entry to the Best American Sports Writing series, sends the lauded annual anthologies out on a high note after a 30-year run. "The most compelling stories are ones we can feel and touch and imagine, without much difficulty, that we are there," MacMullan writes. Three particularly memorable stories mark this installment: In "For People Suffering from Alzheimer's and Dementia, Baseball Brings Back Fun Memories" by Bill Plaschke, elderly Alzheimer's patients trade baseball tales as therapy; "As the Border Bled, Juárez Watched the Game It Waited Nine Years For" by Roberto José Andrade Franco relates a soccer club's revival in one of Mexico's most dangerous cities; and "Shooting a Tiger" by Bryan Burrough follows the bloody hunt for a man-eating tiger in India. Along with well-detailed accounts of sports concussions and heatstroke, there is "Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due?" by Elizabeth Weil, a revealing profile of the tennis great, and "Patriot Act" by May Jeong, a blistering exposé of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. This final, sparkling outing is a must-read for all sports lovers. -Publisher's Weekly


About the Author





JACKIE MACMULLAN is the author of 
New York Times bestsellers 
Basketball: A Love Story and 
When the Game Was Ours. She has been a writer for the 
Boston 
Globe, Sports Illustrated and ESPN.com. GLENN STOUT has been Series Editor since the inception of the series.

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