In the only sports anthology of its kind over the last fifty years, the editors have amassed seventy-six gems of the literature that, as co-editor Al Silverman writes in his introduction, "offer laughter, virtue, hope, and joy, and lighten hearts."The selections are as diverse as the writers themselves. Poetry, for instance, is represented by the likes of James Dickey, Maxine Kumin, Primo Levi, Federico Garcia Lorca, Quincy Troupe, W. B. Yeats, and - yes - Stephen King. The art of fiction includes works by such as Don DeLillo, Frederick Exley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Harris, John Huston (indeed, the film director), William Kennedy, Philip Roth, Damon Runyon, Anne Tyler, and John Updike. And you will read classic nonfiction from past and present masters like Tom Boswell, Jimmy Cannon, Robert W. Creamer, Arnold Hano, W. C. Heinz, A. J. Liebling, Jack London, Jim Murray, Red Smith, and Gay Talese.Through the immoderate richness of its literature, baseball abounds with eighteen selections. But other sports represented in various manifestations include auto racing, basketball, boxing, bullfighting, football, golf, hockey, horse racing, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, and even the earliest thrillers on television - wrestling and the roller derby.As compiled by the father-and-son team of Al Silverman, former editor of Sport Magazine, and Brian Silverman, the Twentieth Century Treasury of Sports illuminates the intimate relationship between sports and life - the individual victories and the shared victories, the acts of heroism and failed heroism, the glory, tragedy, conflict, and joy of sports, as of life - conveyed as much as possible through the power of the written word. Read Less