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For more than twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the previous year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Each year, the series editor and guest editor curate a truly exceptional collection. The only shared traits among all these diverse styles, voices, and stories are the extraordinarily high caliber of writing, and the pure passion they tap into that can only come from sports.

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"Excellent...A no-brainer pickup for the sports collection." -Booklist

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JEFF PEARLMAN, guest editor, is the New York Times best-selling author of eight books, including Gunslinger and The Bad Guys Won. GLENN STOUT, series editor, is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912. He has been the editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception in 1991.

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