The Best American Sports Writing 2010

Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the past year. Edited by the award-winning Peter Gammons, the pieces in this volume embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement.

About the author

PETER GAMMONS is an analyst and writer for the MLB network and makes regular appearances on MLB Tonight. Gammons began his career at the Boston Globe and also worked for Sports Illustrated. He was a long-time analyst for ESPN and regularly contributed to Baseball Tonight, SportsCenter, and ESPN, the Magazine. He was voted National Sportswriter of the Year for 1989, 1990, and 1993, and in 2004, he was awarded the J. G. Taylor Spink Award at the Baseball Hall of Fame for outstanding baseball writing.Glenn Stout is a writer, author, and editor, and served as series editor of The Best American Sports Writing, and founding editor of The Year’s Best Sports Writing. He is also the author of Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, Fenway 1912, Nine Months at Ground Zero, and many other award-winning and best-selling books. He also served as a consultant on the Disney+ film adaptation of Young Woman and the Sea. Stout lives in Lake Champlain in Vermont.

Summary

Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the past year. Edited by the award-winning Peter Gammons, the pieces in this volume embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Gammons, Glenn Stout
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2010
• EAN: 9780547152486
• ISBN: 978-0-547-15248-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: Best American
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Travel writing, Sociolinguistics, Sport: general, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, TRAVEL: Essays & Travelogues, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Authorship, SPORTS & RECREATION: Essays, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Etymology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Fiction Writing, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Journalism, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Semantics