Confessions of a washed-up sportswriter / Gary Cartwright The final season / George Plimpton Down and out at Wrigley Field / Rich Cohen Obsessed with sport / Joseph Epstein The city game / Pete Axthelm Mens Sana in Corpore Sano / Tom Wolfe Tennessee lonesome end / Peter Schrag Find me a writer / Wilfrid Sheed Pilgrim's progress / Lewis H. Lapham These sporting poets / George Plimpton Hyperbole's child / A. Bartlett Giamatti It takes a stadium / Matthew Stevenson A Mickey Mantle koan / David James Duncan Winding up / Robert H. Zieger The story of the Davis Cup / John R. Tunis Hockey nights / Guy Lawson A poisoned Russian king / Nicholas Bethell No joy in Sorrento / Pat Jordan The national pastime / Tom Wolfe Time loves a haircut / Bill Cardoso Brains, baseball, and Branch Rickey / John Chamberlain It's only a game / Shirley Jackson Hunting the deceitful turkey / Mark Twain The biggest race track killing ever made / Leo Katcher Yachting at Keil / James B. Connolly Moscow games / George Plimpton The Cestus of Hygeia / Bernard DeVoto The jogger's prayer / Tom Wolfe Mudville / Lewis H. Lapham The boys of winter / Rich Cohen
