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Release Date: Oct 4 2011 | Series: Best American

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The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.

The Best American Sports Writing 2011 includes

Paul Solotaroff, Sally Jenkins, Wells Tower, John McPhee, David Dobbs, Wright Thompson,

P. J. O’Rourke, Selena Roberts, and others

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The Best American Sports Writing 2011 includes

Paul Solotaroff, Sally Jenkins, Wells Tower, John McPhee, David Dobbs, Wright Thompson,

P. J. O’Rourke, Selena Roberts, and others

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books; 1 edition (Oct 4 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0547336969
ISBN-13: 978-0547336961
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 399 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #258,191 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #24 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Miscellaneous > Journalism

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About the Author

JANE LEAVY is an award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy and The Last Boy: Micky Mantle and the End of America's Childhood.

GLENN STOUT is the author of all the Good Sports books. He was also the author of thirty-nine titles in the Matt Christopher Sports Biography and Legends in Sports series. He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.Check out his website at www.goodsportsbyglennstout.com.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A bit of an odd assortment Jan 6 2012

By Jeff Hopper - Published on Amazon.com

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Some strange choices here. The year's editor noted that she chose to eliminate a whole set of articles dealing with matters of Tiger Woods' infidelity and other topics because they made no real contribution to the genre, then she chose to include other journalistically insignificant pieces because they gave us a good sense of the happenings of the year in sports--articles, for instance, about voyeuristic swim coaches. What this really means, of course, is that no one really knows where to draw the line anymore between what is sports and what it is not. It's a tough assignment, right down to the last piece (about sportswriter Mike Penner) which had virtually nothing to do with sports, however politically necessary Ms. Leavy deemed its inclusion.

What is good is that the collection, as it does each year, includes some fabulous pieces, deeply telling stories that need depth to be good. "The Surfing Savant," "Danny Way and the Gift of Fear," "The Courage of Jill Costello"--here is where we see beauty in a genre that seems required these days to write about less and less beautiful circumstances.

*Thanks to the publisher, by the way, for bringing this year's edition to the Kindle.

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2.0 out of 5 stars I'm a big fan of the series but.... Mar 15 2012

By L. O'Connell - Published on Amazon.com

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this is by far, in my opinion, the worst since the first one in 1991 (and I have them all). This is one of my annual reading treats, but most of the stories in this are downbeat, dull and have characters with whom it is not easy to empathise, mainly because we don't get a chance to get to know them. Many of the stories barely qualify as sports, and I hope that there will be an improvement in the 2012 edition!! I never thought I'd say this about one of this series, but i definitely would not recommend it.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Best american sports writing 2011 Dec 16 2011

By Linder - Published on Amazon.com

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Do not buy this year's Best American Sports Writing book (2011) The Best American Sports Writing 2011 for anyone you like. I look forward to this book each year for the uplifting and vivid stories about great sports moments and great people. This year's book is not like that at all. Each story is drearier than the last. The stories include: swim coaches peeping and abusing young teen swimmers; football and rugby players raping and mistreating fans and female players; death at the Olympics luge track; and a cheerleader told to cheer for her abuser to name a few. This is not designed as a book for sports lovers. Buy the 2010 edition The Best American Sports Writing 2010 (The Best American Series (R)) instead. It was much more fun to read.

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