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Includes articles chosen from more than 350 magazines and newspapers on topics ranging from female gymnastics and fraudulent horse insurance claims to veteran batter Ted Williams
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Chosen from more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications, this superb collection features the best writing on sports and sports figures, both familiar and slightly unusual. The twenty-eight most memorable pieces of the year include a humorous commentary on NFL end-zone celebrations, an in-depth look at the art of cleaning fish, a story on anorexia nervosa's effect on female gymnasts, an insightful history of the meteoric rise of sports to its place of prominence in our society, a revealing report on the incidence of fraudulent horse insurance claims, and a surprising review of Ken Burns's documentary Baseball.
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