BASW 2010: Table of Contents

Don't remember seeing this listed anywhere here. But saw it on Glenn's website:

http://www.indiepro.com/glenn/?page_id=59

Guest editor Peter Gammons. Available early October.

I've read many of these but definitely not all. Look forward to buying it. Last year I found it in a bookstore a few weeks before it was widely available:


THOMAS LAKE. The Way It Should be
from Sports Illustrated

WRIGHT THOMPSON. Shadow Boxing
from ESPN.com

MALCOLM GLADWELL. Offensive Play
from The New Yorker

STEVE FRIEDMAN. The Impossible Redemption of Jonathan Boyer
from Bicycling

MIKE MAGNUSON. Whatever Happened to Greg LeMond?
from Bicycling

CYNTHIA GORNEY. Ripped (Or Torn Up?)
from The New York Times Magazine

DAVID OWEN. The Ghost Course
From The New Yorker

JENNIFER KAHN. Flat
From Outsider

JOHN BRANT. Close to Home
from Runner’s World

SKIP HOLLANDSWORTH. (Still) Life
from Texas Monthly

ALEXANDER WOLFF. The NFL’s Jackie Robinson
from Sports Illustrated

BOB RYAN. NBA Leads This Race
from The Boston Globe

MICHAEL SOKOLOVE. Allonzo Trier Is in the Game
from The New York Times Magazine

BOB HOHLER. Missed Opportunities
from The Boston Globe

MICHAEL LEWIS. The No-Stats All-Star
from The New York Times Magazine

JEANNE MARIE LASKAS. This Is Your Brain on Football
from GQ

ROBERT SANCHEZ. This Is Ted Johnson’s Brain
from 5280

BILL PLASCHKE. Scout’s Honor: It’s Phil Pote
from The Los Angeles Times

KARL TARO GREENFELD. Stay In the Moment
from Men’s Journal

ERIC NUSBAUM. The Death of a Pitcher
from Pitchersandpoets.com

MIKE SIELSKI. Dream Derailed
from The Bucks County Courier Times

RICHARD HOFFER. The Revolutionary
from Sports Illustrated

S.L. PRICE. The Ever Elusive, Always Inscrutable and Still Incomparable Bobby Orr
from Sports Illustrated

DAN LE BATARD. As Bernie Kosar’s Life Around Him Crumbles, the Former QB’s Game Plan is Familiar: Emerge Unscathed
from The Miami Herald.

MIKE SAGER. Todd Marinovich: The Man Who Never Was
from Esquire

PAT JORDAN. Chasing Jose
from Deadspin.com

 

0-for-20. Sigh.

 

It seems as though there was a theme this year -- stories about former athletes or unrequited dreams.

 

Mike Sager's piece on Todd Marinovich was fan-fucking-tastic.

I, of all people, was nominated for BASW by the fine folks at McSweeney's. As was Stephen King for his opus on the World Series and several others who did sports work. I'm a little surprised that King's piece didn't make the cut because it was very, very good.

Unless they missed the deadline to enter or something. So I'm a little curious now.

 

On the other end, if there's a Wright Thompson piece in it, the book will be the size of "The Arms of Krupp"

 

Anyone looking for inspiration should plan on picking up a copy. They always do a good job of widening the scope of what "sports writing" is and can be. In most cases, sports has little to do with what makes the stories great.

 

Can someone go through all those and tell me which ones I should read? I don't have time to read an entire book.

 

At least one of these authors is an oblivious prima donna and a world-class overwriter who should drop to his knees every night and thank the sweet Lord he has editors to save him from himself. And that's all I'll say about it.

(And, no, I didn't produce anything this year that could even remotely be considered sportswriting. When someone assembles The Best American Budget and Spreadsheet Writing 2011, however, I'm a shoo-in ... but anyone can write fiction.)

 

I don't think I overwrite that much.

 

I'm disappointed this didn't make it, for the headline and the ending alone.

http://deadspin.com/5360440/jesus-is-the-derek-jeter-of-christianity

 

Hell, I'm exhausted just reading the table of contents.