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The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker

By David Remnick

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About the book

For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievement--in 1930. John Cheever pens a story about a boy's troubled relationship with his father and the n...Show more

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ISBN

9780812979985

Publisher

Modern Library

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker

Format

Paperback

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