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For a quarter century, the annual Best American Sports Writing has showcased the greatest sports journalism of the previous year. This year’s guest editor, acclaimed author Howard Bryant, continues the tradition, seeking out writing that best captures the unpredictable journey of sports. Triumphantly and painfully, these stories reflect on that journey, asking difficult questions about who we are, as individuals and as a nation: What does it mean when a football player takes a knee during the national anthem, who decides where the remains of an American legend should rest, and how far will people go to reclaim dreams that have long slipped away? Spanning different sports, disciplines, and styles, these pieces are, above all, inspirational to readers, writers, and athletes around the world, proof of the bonds and breaking points that exist between and within us all.
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GLENN STOUT is a freelance writer, author, editorial consultant and has served as Series Editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception. He is the author of The Young Woman and the Sea, a biography of Trudy Ederle, currently in production at Paramount Studios, The Selling of the Babe and Fenway 1912, and has collaborated with Richard Johnson on Red Sox Century, Yankees Century, The Cubs and The Dodgers.^
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Howard Bryant is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He has been the sports correspondent for National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday since 2006, and worked at several newspapers including the Boston Herald and The Washington Post. A Boston native, Mr. Bryant is the author of Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball, The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, and the three-book Legends series for middle-grade readers. His profile of Dusty Baker for ESPN.com appeared in the 2011 edition of The Best American Sports Writing. Mr. Bryant was also a 2016 finalist for the National Magazine Award for commentary.
Author of a definitive biography of Henry Aaron (The Last Hero, 2010), senior writer for ESPN, and sports commentator ...for NPR, guest editor Bryant has culled these 27 pieces as a fierce response to the ever-higher barriers that working sportswriters must surmount to deliver great stories, whether from shrinking budgets, time constraints, or the increasing distance athletes set between themselves and their fans. Thus, Pat Jordan finds himself cruising Norman, Oklahoma, in a black Mercedes with football legend Barry Switzer, who coached both collegiate and Super Bowl champions; the Washington Post's Dave Sheinin finds himself in Dusty Baker's home--full of the aroma of the collard greens Baker is nursing on the stove--on the way to revealing the complexity of the Washington Nationals' manager; and the New York Times' John Branch teases out the compelling story of the Golden State Warriors' coach, Steve Kerr, which begins in 1980s war-torn Beirut, where Kerr's father, Malcolm, president of the American University there, was murdered. Sports here are merely the jumping-off point for an exploration of the humanity at the core of it all. - Booklist
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