Football: great writing about the national sport
"An All-Pro line-up of writers including Red Smith, Frank Deford, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton, Richard Price, Charles Pierce, Michael Lewis, and Roy Blount Jr tackle our most popular pastime. Since football's meteoric rise in the mid-twentieth century, the standout writers on the sport...
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| Summary: | "An All-Pro line-up of writers including Red Smith, Frank Deford, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton, Richard Price, Charles Pierce, Michael Lewis, and Roy Blount Jr tackle our most popular pastime. Since football's 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. Now, in a landmark collection, The Library of America brings together the very best of their work: gems of deadline reportage, incisive longform profiles of football's 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 football's boundless capacity to generate outsized characters and memorable tales."--Publisher's description |
| Physical Description: | XXI, 463 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781598533071 9781598534177 |
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INTRODUCTION
by John Schulian
..........................xi
GRANTLAND RICE
from The Tumult and the Shouting
................1
W. C. HEINZ
The Ghost of the Gridiron
.....................4
MYRON COPE
from The Game That Was: Johnny Blood
............17
SHIRLEY POVICH
The Redskins Longest Day
....................25
RED SMITH
The Most Important Thing
....................28
The Lost Cause
..........................30
FREDERICK EXLEY
from A Fan s Notes
........................34
STUART LEUTHNER
from Iron Men: Pat
Summerall..................38
GARY SMITH
Moment of Truth
.........................47
FRANK DEFORD
The Best There Ever Was
.....................65
JOHN SCHULIAN
Concrete Charlie
.........................71
DAVID MARANISS
from When Pride Still Mattered
.................85
JIMMY CANNON
Greatness
.............................91
vii
viii CONTENTS
JIMMY BRESLIN
..
.The One Last Good One That Wasn t to Be
..........94
GEORGE PLIMPTON
from Paper Lion
.........................102
DAN JENKINS
An Upside-Down Game
.....................112
JERRY IZENBERG
A Whistle-Stop School with Big-Time Talent
..........119
JERRY KRAMER AND DICK
SCHAAP
from Instant Replay
.......................135
JENNIFER ALLEN
from Fifth Quarter
.......................144
AL SILVERMAN
Gale Sayers: The Hard Road Back
................155
JIM MURRAY
Don t Look Now
...
but the Funny Little League is No.
1 ... 167
LARRY MERCHANT
from
...
And Every Day You Take Another Bite
.........170
ARTHUR KRETCHMER
Butkus
..............................179
PAUL HEMPHILL
Yesterday s Hero
.........................203
GARY CARTWRIGHT
Tom
Landry:
Melting the Plastic Man
.............213
TOM ARCHDEACON
Smith Hates for It to End Like This.
.............. 224
RICHARD PRICE
Bear Bryant s Miracles
.....................229
RICK REILLY
A Matter of Life and Sudden Death
..............246
CONTENTS ix
LEIGH MONTVILLE
A Miracle in Miami
.......................259
H. G.
BISSINGER
from Friday Night Lights
....................263
MARK
KRAM
No Pain, No Game
.......................272
CHARLES P. PIERCE
Legends of the Fall
.......................285
IRA
BERKÓW
The Minority Quarterback
...................294
PETER RICHMOND
Flesh and Blood
.........................314
JOHN ED BRADLEY
The Best Years of His Life
....................328
WRIGHT THOMPSON
Pulled Pork
&
Pigskin: A Love Letter to Southern Football
. . 341
RICK TELANDER
Atkins a Study in Pride and Pain
................351
PAT
FORDE
Broncos Earn Respect With Improbable Victory
........355
MICHAEL LEWIS
The Kick Is Up and It s... a Career Killer
............360
JEANNE MARIE
LASKAŠ
G-L-O-R-Y!
...........................377
NATE JACKSON
pom Slow Getting Up.
.....................395
PAUL SOLOTAROFF
The Ferocious Life and Tragic Death of a Super Bowl Star
. . . 401
BRYAN CURTIS
Friday Night Tykes
.......................413
X
CONTENTS
ROYBLOUNTJR.
Immaculate
Memory......................435
SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
...............447
INDEX
.................................451
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