Best sports writing

[TownieDeac]

Post your favorites from any era

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

The Fight by Norman Mailer

 

[RJKarl]

Jim Murray is the greatest sports columnist of all time. If you have a friend who loves sports, buy that person a book of Murray's columns.

Dick Schaap is better at longer prose.

 

[tiltdeac]

The DFW Federer piece is great.

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

The DFW Federer piece is great.

his youth tennis one is pretty good too

Trying to remember some of my favorite Grantland pieces. Kang, Hsu, Phillips, Klosterman all used to pump out some good ones.

 

[deacsrus]

Feinstein and Reilly

 

[Shorty]

Roger Kahn wrote some of the best sports books I ever read. The Boys of Summer is amazing.

 

[Sgt Hulka]

Alan Williams, "Walk On."

 

[Dillon Fence]

Frank Deford and Gary Smith.

 

[deaconcall]

Second Gary Smith. Went to med school with his wife. He was a cool guy.

 

[timdunkandthefunk]

Wright Thompson could publish a long form piece about how awesome UNC is and I would read it.

 

[CumberlandDeac]

Probably not the best pure prose, but I think Zach Lowe does a damn good job weaving in statistics in his writing without making it so dry.

 

[avalon]

Joe Posnanski had a great piece on wrestling at the Olympics years ago that I can't find through any combination of googling.

Homer pick: The Legions of Arms Part II: Brotherly Glove

 

[No one]

Mary Garber

 

[discdude]

The Complete Angler by Walton and Cotton

 

[KiltedDeac]

She was Awesome ))))))

 

[Deaconblue]

Red Smith

He received the highest award for journalism from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
He was only the second sportswriter to receive a Pulitzer Prize for literature.

Here is a link to his bio on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Smith_(sportswriter)

 

[socaldeac]

https://www.si.com/mlb/2014/10/15/curious-case-sidd-finch

 

[dartsndeacs]

Bill Simmons fantasy Pats talk

 

[Deacsfan27]

Wright Thompson could publish a long form piece about how awesome UNC is and I would read it.

I love Wright Thompson. One of the best pieces I have ever read was on Sachin Tendulkar. It was amazing.