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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v39.i43.records.utf8:2795817:2708
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 02708cam a2200349 a 4500
001 2009040009
003 DLC
005 20111020152742.0
008 090928s2010 nyua 000 0 eng
010 $a 2009040009
020 $a9781400068029 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $z9780679603665 (eBook)
020 $a1400068029 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $z0679603662 (eBook)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn437298767
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043 $an-us---
050 00 $aGV704$b.O55 2010
082 00 $a796/.0973$222
245 04 $aThe only game in town :$bsportswriting from the New Yorker /$cedited by David Remnick.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$cc2010.
300 $axiv, 492 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 0 $aThe New Yorker anthology series
505 00 $gIntroduction /$rDavid Remick --$tFrom the bleachers.$tThe web of the game /$rRoger Angell ;$tAhab and Nemesis /$rA.J. Liebling ;$tHub fans bid Kid adieu /$rJohn Updike ;$tThe only games in town /$rAnthony Lane ;$tRace track /$rBill Barich --$tImmortals.$tA sense of where you are /$rJohn McPhee ;$gEl único matador /$rLillian Ross ;$tNet worth /$rHenry Louis Gates, Jr. ;$tThe long ride /$rMichael Specter ;$tBorn slippy /$rJohn Seabrook ;$tThe chosen one /$rDavid Owen ;$tLegend of a sport /$rAlva Johnston ;$tA man-child in Lotusland /$rRebecca Mead --$tPersonal best.$tDangerous game /$rNick Paumgarten ;$tThe running novelist /$rHaruki Murakami ;$tBack to the basement /$rNancy Franklin ;$tPlaying Doc's games /$rWilliam Finnegan ;$tLast of the Metroziods /$rAdam Gopnik ;$tThe Sandy Frazier dream team /$rIan Frazier --$tA deeper game.$tBr'er Rabbit ball /$rRing Lardner ;$tThe greens of Ireland /$rHerbert Warren Wind ;$tTennis personalities /$rMartin Amis ;$tProject Knuckleball /$rBen McGrath ;$tGame plan /$rDon DeLillo ;$tThe art of failure /$rMalcolm Gladwell --$tOut of left field.$tSwimming with sharks /$rCharles Sprawson ;$tThe national pastime /$rJohn Cheever ;$tSNO /$rCalvin Trillin ;$tMusher /$rSusan Orleans ;$tHome and away /$rPeter Hessler ;$tNo obstacles /$rAlec Wilkinson ;$tA stud's life /$rKevin Conley.
520 $aFrom Tiger Woods to bullfighter Sidney Franklin, from the Chinese Olympics to the U.S. Open, the greatest plays and players, past and present, are all covered in "The Only Game in Town." At "The New Yorker," it's not whether you win or lose--it's how you write about the game.
650 0 $aSports$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSports stories, American.
650 0 $aSports literature$zUnited States.
700 1 $aRemnick, David.
730 0 $aNew Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)