Football: Great Writing About the National Sport

ISBN: 1598534173

Author: Various

Condition: New

Mens Journals Ultimate Football Reading ListFirst-rate sports writing on American football from an all-star line-up that includes Red Smith, Jimmy Breslin, Michael Lewis, and more (Wall Street Journal)Since footballs meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century, the standout writers on the sport have gone behind and beyond the spectacle to reveal the complexity, the contradictions, and the deeper humanity at the heart of the game.In a landmark collection, The Library of America brings together the very best of their work: gems of deadline reportage, incisive longform profiles of footballs storied figures, and autobiographical accounts by players and others close to the game. Celebrating the sport without shying away from its sometimes devastating personal and social costs, the forty-four pieces gathered here testify to footballs boundless capacity to generate outsized characters and memorable tales.