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Players -- Boxer and the Blonde / Frank Deford 10 -- Yogi / Roy Blount Jr. 34 -- Last Angry Men / Rick Telander 51 -- Year, The Moment and Johnny Podres / Robert Creamer 58 -- Gifts That God Didn't Give / John Papanek 63 -- All the Rage / Richard Hoffer 73 -- Ring Leader / Frank Deford 82 -- Main Events -- 'Lawdy, Lawdy, He's Great' / Mark Kram 98 -- There's Never Been an Open Like It / Dan Jenkins 103 -- Day Bobby Hit the Home Run / Roger Kahn 110 -- A Pay Night for Old Archie / Budd Schulberg 118 -- Duel of the Four-Minute Men / Paul O'Neil 121 -- Sweet Spots -- Finally, Just Me and My Bike / Thomas McGuane 128 -- You'll Not Do That Here, Laddie / Dan Jenkins 134 -- University of Eighth Avenue / A.J. Liebling 151 -- Sons of the Wind / Kenny Moore 163 -- Road Swing / Steve Rushin 178 -- Wild Kingdom -- Mirror of My Mood / Bil Gilbert 192 -- Snakes Alive! / Jeff MacGregor 201 -- Pure Heart / William Nack 210 -- Grim Reapers of the Land's Bounty / Jim Harrison 224 -- We Are Destroying Our National Parks / Wallace Stegner 232 -- Supporting Players -- There Ain't No Others Like Me / Mark Kram 238 -- Master of the Joyful Illusion / William Barry Furlong 246 -- Coach and His Champion / Alexander Wolff 256 -- 'I Managed Good, But Boy Did They Play Bad' / Gilbert Rogin 268 -- Baseball's Babbling Brook / Huston Horn 275 -- Playing for Laughs -- Absolutely, Positively the Best Article Ever / Bruce Newman 286 -- Ring Tossed / Steve Rushin 298 -- We All Had a Ball / Roy Blount Jr. 308 -- Curious Case of Sidd Finch / George Plimpton 323 -- Lake Wobegon Games / Garrison Keillor 335 -- Worst Baseball Team Ever / Jimmy Breslin 343 -- On the Winter Tour / Herbert Warren Wind 352 -- Personal Fouls -- Case Against Brian Spencer / Pete Dexter 362 -- Total Loss Weekend / Don DeLillo 372 -- Game of the Name / Franz Lidz 383 -- Crime and Punishment / Gary Smith 387 -- Broken Promise / S.L. Price 409 -- O Unlucky Man / William Nack 419 -- Music to the Ear -- King of the Sports Page / Rick Reilly 434 -- Then My Arm Glassed Up / John Steinbeck 445 -- Heavyweight Champion of the Word / Jeff MacGregor 451 -- Would You Let This Man Interview You? / Myron Cope 466 -- Big Wind in Chicago / Ron Fimrite 478 -- Kentucky: May: Saturday / William Faulkner 487 -- Examined Lives -- Farewell, Teddy Ballgame / Leigh Montville 494 -- Ripples From Little Lake Nellie / Gary Smith 501 -- Best Years of His Life / John Ed Bradley 519 -- He's Burning To Be a Success / John Underwood 530 -- Laughing on the Outside / John Schulian 542 -- Best There Ever Was / Frank Deford 554. |
