Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker (1st ed.)

For more than eighty years,The New Yorkerhas been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around.The Only Game in Townis a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee.

Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievementin 1930.

John Cheever pens a story about a boy's troubled relationship with his father and the national pastime.

From Lance Armstrong to bullfighter Sidney Franklin, from the Chinese Olympics to the U.S.

Open, the greatest plays and players, past and present, are all covered inThe Only Game in Town.

AtThe New Yorker, it's not whether you win or loseit's how you write about the game.