Look at what I found in Booksale (for Php 115). Here's the synopsis for The Best American Sportswriting 2008 edition.
In
this exciting new collection, William Nack, veteran sportswriter and author of
the classic Secretariat, honors the year’s finest sports journalism and thus
upholds the tradition that began seventeen years ago, with David Halberstam at
the helm. In these pages, you will find the most provocative, compelling,
tragic, and triumphant moments in sports from 2007, captured by the knights of
the keyboard who make sports come alive for us day after day, week after week,
year after year.
Here
you’ll find Paul Solotaroff’s excellent and uncompromising take on the neglect
that a growing number of crippled NFL players continually face from the NFL
players’ union. Jeanne Marie Laskas’s “G-L-O-R-Y!” offers a rousing inside look
at the pregame rituals of the Cincinnati Bengals cheerleaders. A riveting
online diary by Wright Thompson reveals a bleak and merciless landscape in
China, which that country’s government would rather not have the world see
during preparations for the Olympics.
Nack
finds a place for the fascinating offbeat story as well as the sensational.
Alongside Eli Saslow’s captivating article about an obscure seventeenth-century
sport, similar to a giant rugby scrum, carried out in the streets of Kirkwall,
Scotland, stands Franz Lidz’s “scoop of the year,” a controversial and rare
look into the life of George Steinbrenner, baseball’s largest but recently most
enigmatic figure.
This
year’s collection marks another wonderful addition to “one of the most
consistently satisfying titles in the Best American series” (Booklist).
Contributors include
Scott Price, Rick Bragg, Gary Smith, J.R. Moehringer, and others.
Wow! Meron pa ba?
ReplyDeleteYep.
ReplyDeleteYes! What branch?
ReplyDeleteSaw it in Booksale Shopwise. Not sure if they have it elsewhere. They have 2 more copies when I left.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDeleteRight now, I am thoroughly enjoying reading The Best American Sports Writing of the Century , edited by the late David Halberstam and with Glenn Stout as series editor.