The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker  enlarge Creator: David Remnick Publisher: Random House Category: Book List Price: $30.00 Buy New: $18.38 as of 9/8/2010 15:01 PDT details You Save: $11.62 (39%) New (30) Used (11) from $15.98 Seller: pbshopus Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 8518 Media: Hardcover Edition: 1 Pages: 512 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9 Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.5 ISBN: 1400068029 Dewey Decimal Number: 796.0973 EAN: 9781400068029 ASIN: 1400068029 Publication Date: June 8, 2010 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Features:   •  ISBN13: 9781400068029   •  Condition: New   •  Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Similar Items: Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks) Rules of the Game: The Best Sports Writing from Harper's Magazine (American Retrospective) The Best American Sports Writing of the Century Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (Modern Library Paperbacks) Editorial Reviews: Product Description For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. Featuring brilliant reportage and analysis, profound profiles of pros, and tributes to the amateur in all of us, The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench. Including such authors as Roger Angell and John Updike, both of them synonymous with New Yorker sportswriting, The Only Game in Town also features greats like John McPhee and Don DeLillo. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievement—in 1930. A. J. Liebling inimitably portrays the 1955 Rocky Marciano–Archie Moore bout as “Ahab and Nemesis . . . man against history,” and John Cheever pens a story about a boy’s troubled relationship with his father and “The National Pastime.” From Tiger Woods to bullfighter Sidney Franklin, from the Chinese Olympics to the U.S. Open, the greatest plays and players, past and present, are all covered in The Only Game in Town. At The New Yorker, it’s not whether you win or lose—it’s how you write about the game. Customer Reviews: $9.99 boycott   July 27, 2010 Steven A. Schwindt (Stayton Oregon) 0 out of 10 found this review helpful I know many readers here do not like reviews like this. I so want to read this book, but not at the price listed by the publisher. Get this publisher to reduce the price to $9.99 like most Kindle books are now. I will wait until the library here gets this book before paying only $3.00 less than the DTB. Steven Oregon Sports fans will no doubt welcom this edition into their library   July 26, 2010 Bookreporter.com (New York, New York) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful Some amazing writers from various disciplines have contributed to the pages of The New Yorker in the magazine's 80-plus-year history. More than 30 of them are included in this wonderful anthology of the best from the world of sports, in itself a competition of sorts. One would not find these pieces in the back pages of a local newspaper. These are thoughtful, long pieces that go beyond the box score and records, or the simple accomplishments on the various fields of play. Some --- like "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," John Updike's chronicle of Ted Williams's final game --- have become part of the larger time capsule of sports' legendary figures, both subject and author (a 50th anniversary edition of "Hub Fans" was published earlier this year by the Library of America). Others --- such as Lillian Ross's "El Unico Matador," perhaps the only profile ever written about a gay Jewish-American bullfighter --- offer people, places and events they otherwise would never discover. It is fitting that New Yorker staple Roger Angell "leads off" the collection with his famous report of a classic 1-0 extra-inning 1981 college contest between Frank Viola of St. John's and Ron Darling of Yale. (And if you want to know the details, in the words of the eminent baseball philosopher Casey Stengel, "you could look it up.") Adding to the enjoyment of Angell's tale: the presence and commentary of "Smoky Joe" Wood, a standout of the early 1900s and later a college coach himself. Other notable writers include John Cheever on fathers, sons and baseball; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on Michael Jordan; A. J. Liebling on the 1955 Marciano-Moore fight; and John McPhee on Princeton basketball star (and later U.S. senator) Bill Bradley. But is good writing on its own enough of a draw? While there are five essays on baseball, it seems editor David Remnick tries perhaps a bit too hard to be democratic as he includes so many sports/games/activities. Maybe that's the point. In what other mainstream publication would you find so much thoughtful prose on such diverse topics as surfing (William Finnegan), snowmobiling (Calvin Trillin), dog sledding (Susan Orlean), ping-pong (Nancy Franklin), and parkour (Alec Wilkinson; parkour is a jumping "sport" that seems more applicable to cinematic stunt work than athletics). Oddity for oddity's sake? Or is it perhaps a "snob factor" the historic magazine is after? Regardless, sports fans who hold The New Yorker in the same regard as The Sporting News or Sports Illustrated will no doubt welcome this edition into their library. --- Reviewed by Ron Kaplan A great read   July 26, 2010 Gerald D. Lenocker (Redmond, WA) 2 out of 3 found this review helpful Terrific stories from best writers at the New Yorker. Well chosen, introduced me to some writers I was not familiar with, and provided several great moments. One of a series of compiliations along a theme. Highly recommended. Great selections of great writing   June 24, 2010 Will (San Francisco) 2 out of 14 found this review helpful For instance, "It may be that, compared to managers' dreams such as Joe DeMaggio and the always helpful Stan Musial, Williams is an icy star. But of all team sports, baseball, with its grateful intermittences of action, its immense and tranquil field sparsely settled with poised men in white, its dispassionate mathematics, seems to me best suited to accommodate, and be ornamented by, a loner. It is an essentially lonely game. No other played visible in my generation has concentrated within himself so much of the sport's poignance, has so assiduously refined his natural skills, has so consistently bought to the plate that intensity of competence that crowds the throat with joy." from Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu by John Updike

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