2024 the best american sports writing review
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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.
ASIN : B081TS3VDX
Publisher : Mariner Books (November 3, 2020)
Publication date : November 3, 2020
Language : English
File size : 4611 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 370 pages
Reviewer: Norcalsurf
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: RIP Best American Sports Writing - You Will Be Dearly Missed
Review: I was very skeptical when I read, in Jackie MacMullan's introduction, that not a single story included in this edition would be that of a major professional athlete or team. How could a sports anthology not include anything from professional football, baseball, basketball, etc.? Not far into the book I realized that there is plenty out there from less-heard-of sports that could hold my interest as well as any story from these more traditional sports. And what a ride this edition is, covering stories that I could not believe eluded me when they were first published. Some of my favorites included that of an alleged Olympic fraud who performed not a single trick in her halfpipe routine in the 2018 Olympics; the Olympic-level physical training and diet of World Class chess players; a high school baseball coach sued for instructing a player to perform a most common skill in a most common situation; a former Olympic cycling hopeful who pulled off some of the most bizarre bank robberies in U.S. history, caught only because of his get-away bike; inmate-focused abuse in the most bizarre rodeo contests I have ever heard of; and the everybody-for-himself mentality rampant at the Earth's highest peak.Included in this issue is what I have come to expect in this series: stories focusing on concussions, sexual assault, and suicide. Stories that need to be heard but nonetheless have dampened the mood of this series and its focus on one of the most sacred of spaces in America and the world. And I was absolutely shocked to read in the opening words of the foreword written by series editor Glenn Stout that this would be the last edition of the Best American Sports Writing. As an academic who teaches classes in sport science with a focus on psychological aspects of sports, my career has evolved alongside this series from when I started college in the first year of its run 30 years ago. I am left to wonder where I will find off-the-path nuggets I can use as required reading in my courses, and, while I would hope this series would never end, I think it is doing so one year early. Imagine the stories that could have been included in next year's edition, all of which would have been written and published during the strangest period in the history of sports, when the sports world stopped because of COVIV-19.I would personally like to thank Glenn Stout and all of the series editors for providing me (and thousands others) with a collection of stories that I grew up with and helped form my own view of the world. It has been a tremendous honor to be the recipient of untold thousands of hours of compiling the stories that have defined my generation.
Reviewer: DONALD P COUSINO
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Will be missed!
Review: Sorry to hear that this may be the end of the 4th Quarter for this wonderful series. I have managed to gather all the editions from the beginning up to this one. A wonderful slice of life away from politics. Thank You Glenn Stout and all your wonderful collaborators. I was fortunate to grow up in Los Angles when the LA Times had the great Jim Murray. And this series always seemed to me to carry on that beautiful word smithing tradition. Thanks.
Reviewer: RussellBerrien
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very good condition, delivered promptly and at a good price.
Review: The book came exactly as promised, in great condition and at a fair price
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Much more than writing about sports or athletes
Review: I was very pleasantly surprised by the stories included. I expected athlete profiles or game summaries but it was stories about interesting characters and the writing was top-notch in most cases.
Reviewer: Peggy J.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best of the Best?
Review: Every Christmas I give this to my nephew, who is a sports writer, reporter and journalist. Must be good stuff since he looks forward to it every year.
Reviewer: Scott Mathiot
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great stories and easy read.
Review: Great series of books. So sad this is the last one. There are many great stories that I would not normally read in this series.
Reviewer: Michael
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: liked them all
Review: great writing from great reporters and authors...have all of the last 20 years or so...sorry to see it ending
Reviewer: Robert R.
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: While I admired the writing...
Review: ..I didnât find these stories tremendously uplifting. But it did inspire me to check out some stories that didnât make the cut. Iâm sad to see this series come to an end.