The Best American Sports Writing 2011

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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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Format: Paperback
ISBN-13/EAN: 9780547336961
ISBN-10: 0547336969
Pages: 384
Price: $23.95
Publication Date: 10/04/2011
Carton Quantity: 24

Guest Editor

Jane Leavy

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.

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Series edited by

Glenn Stout

GLENN STOUT is a freelance writer, author, and editorial consultant and has served as series editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception. He is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912, and has collaborated with Richard Johnson on Red Sox Century, Yankees Century, The Cubs and The Dodgers. Stout has lived in and around Boston for 20 years, and currently lives in Vermont.

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