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For many people, a sports writer is someone like Oscar in The Odd Couple - loveable but messy. Doubtless there are sports writers like that, though the ones we know aren't. What people who write about sports have in common, of course, is a love for sports and a love for writing.

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Books on Sports Writing

Here are current top-selling books of interest on sports writing. You can also search Amazon for more books on sports writing. You might also want to check out our journalism and magazine writing pages for more books.


1.		The Best American Sports Writing 2008 (The Best American Series) from Houghton Mifflin	Click here for more information


2.		The Best American Sports Writing of the Century from Houghton Mifflin Price: $12.89 Customer Review: I spent the better part of a month engrossed in this wonderful collection of sports writing, and I can't recommend this strongly enough for sportsfans and historians alike. The chronological organization of the writings herein also provided a fascinating look at the way America's sports passions... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		The Best American Sports Writing 2007 (The Best American Series (TM)) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $11.20 Customer Review: I read the reviews here, but thought, "how bad can it be?" It's very bad. Every single story was dull, dull, dull. David Halberstam, we miss you!!!	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		The Best American Sports Writing 2006 (The Best American Series) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $8.41 Customer Review: I've enjoyed reading this series for a decade, and this book was right up there with the best of them. This book can either be read quickly like a pleasant novel, or it can be read in pieces; I usually save it for a business trip, when I have breaks to read for just 10-20 minutes at a time. It's... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Sports Illustrated: Great Baseball Writing from Sports Illustrated Price: $11.53 Customer Review: Perhaps the best thing about the book is not the writing itself, but how the writing freezes teams, players, and moments in time to allow the reader to sense and experience the emotion of the past. Obviously, in a collection of works that spans 50+ years and is entitled "Great Baseball Writing," the... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Sports Illustrated: Fifty Years of Great Writing: 50th Anniversary 1954-2004 from Sports Illustrated Price: $13.56 Customer Review: I got this for my sports fanatic son. He read it cover to cover and quotes it all the time. What a nice gift for the sports fan.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Associated Press Sports Writing Handbook from McGraw-Hill Price: $16.47 Customer Review: To call this a handbook is a joke. That implies it is for professionals working in the field. In reality, it's dumbed down to a junior high level and seems to be written for kids who think they want to be sports writers when they grow up. That's nice, but I bought the book after making a... more info	Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		The Best American Sports Writing 2003 (The Best American Series) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $13.00 Customer Review: This book presents an incredibly grim view of sports. Is there no good sports writing that actually deals with sport or do writers today only deal with the personalities and the pains of sports? If you want to kill any joy left of sports in your life then open up this book and let these writers open... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam from Hyperion Price: $16.47 Customer Review: Halberstam was an even more prolific writer than I had thought, as demonstrated by this collection of his short sports pieces published in various magazines over the years. The collection demonstrates his keen eye for the cultural changes mirrored in sport and his appreciation for character. As for... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Sports Illustrated: Great Football Writing (Sports Illustrated) from Sports Illustrated Price: $21.02 Customer Review: Edited by Sports Illustrated magazine's executive editor Rob Fleder, and with an introduction by popular football writer Peter King, Sports Illustrated: Great Football Writing compiles classic stories about football and football players from the pages of the venerable magazine, from the modern day... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Sports Writing: A Beginner's Guide from Discover Writing Press Price: $13.50 Customer Review: This concise, well-organized book enables aspiring sportswriters to understand the mechanics of superior sports coverage, and lays out what they will need to know to effectively contribute to a publication. The book is excellent at describing not only what reporters face when covering events, but... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		The Best American Sports Writing 2002 (The Best American Series) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $13.00 Customer Review: There are a few good stories in this edition,but Reilly really dropped the ball more often than not. To many lengthy stories that just aren;t that interesting(Rae Carruth,moronic backyard wrestling)and far too many stories associated with death. Can we actually focus on the sports a little more?... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		The Best American Sports Writing 2005 (The Best American Series) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $11.90 Customer Review: From the Texas point of view: Scanning HM's 2005 Travel anthology, the editor found no obvious Texas connection, but maybe he just doesn't know what he's doing. However, the Sports anthology was different. The full text selections included Michael Hall's "The Duke of Dunbar" and Katy Vine's... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan from Persea Price: $13.97 Customer Review: I was so anxious to read this book that I paid for expedited shipping. My excitement was spot on. This book is amazing. Pat Jordan is so honest and insightful that I felt as though I knew more about the individuals than before I read the book. There was nothing fluffy in any of the interviews. And... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Fathers & Sons & Sports: Great Writing By Buzz Bissinger, John Ed Bradley, Bill Geist, Donald Hall, Mark Kriegel, Norman MaClean, and Others from ESPN Price: $16.47 Customer Review: ESPN has put together twenty previously published "short" stories built around the FATHER & SON dynamic with sports as the stage and or backdrop. Some stories are twenty plus pages and some are one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half pages. And unlike the old saying "size doesn't matter", in this... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		The Best American Sports Writing 2000 (Best American Series) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $20.08 Customer Review: The 1997 edition of "The Best American Sports Writing" has plenty of moments that will enthrall avid sports fans and even those less avid who merely like a good story. The series is a national treasure, which collects the best sports related writing every year and puts it into a single easy-to-read... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.	[no image]	Good Sports: A Large Print Anthology of Great Sports Writing : Tennis, Basketball, Golf, Horse Racing & the Olympics and Other Special Events (Gk Ha) from G. K. Hall & Company	Click here for more information


18.	[no image]	The Sports Writing Handbook (Lea's Communication Series) from Lawrence Erlbaum Price: $39.95	Click here for more information


19.		The Best American Sports Writing 2001 (The Best American Series) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $18.95 Customer Review: As a longtime reader of this consistently satisfying series, this years' edition just might be the best one yet. It is meatier than the last few years and each story in the book seems a little bit better than the last one. As always, there are surprises, too, not only of more obscure sports (wreck... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information