Glenn Stout

The Best American Sports Writing Glenn Stout

Brief Description: Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. "Cracker-jack writing from some of the country's best-known sports journalists." -- Publishers Weekly With Richard Ben Cramer at the helm, this year's selections embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement, from swimming the Arctic Ocean to high school football. Today's foremost journalists shed light on Mia Hamm, Amare Stoudemire, and on sports' underbelly as a professional baseball team scalps its own tickets and as women single-mindedly pursue million-dollar athletes. We witness the World Taxidermy Championships, the final days of the Michael Jordan Wizards, and much more. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 09/13/2004 pg. 67 (EAN 9780618251391, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Stout, Glenn GLENN STOUT is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912. Contributor Bio:  Cramer, Richard Ben Richard Ben Cramer (1950-2013) won the Pulitzer Prize for Middle East reporting in 1979. His journalism has appeared in "Time", "Newsweek", "The New York Times Magazine", "Esquire", and "Rolling Stone". He is the author of "How Israel Lost: The Four Questions" and the classic of modern American politics" What It Takes: The Way to the White House".