The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese

The last American hero / Tom Wolfe

What do you think of Ted Williams now? / Richard Ben Cramer

The day Bobby blew it / Brad Darrach

Sport for art's sake / Heywood Broun

The Olympic army / Westbrook Pegler

Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine

Game called / Grandland Rice

All the way to the grave / Frank Graham

Next to godliness ; Miracle of Coogan's Bluff ; Jim and his baubles ; The Baby was always a boy

one of a kind ; And all Dizzy's yesterdays / Red Smith

One strike is out / Stanley Woodward

Sal Maglie

a gracious man / Murray Kempton

Obit on the Dodgers / Dick Young

If you're expecting one-liners / Jim Murray

Oh, no! Not another boring interview with Steve Carlton / Diane K. Shah

The LaMotta nuptials / Ira Berkow

"A very solid book" / Mike Royko

Eckie / Ring Lardner

Lethal lightning / Jimmy Cannon

Brownsville bum / W.C. Heinz

Mr. Rickey and the game / Gerald Holland

The rocky road of Pistol Pete ; The ghost of the gridiron / W.C. Heinz

Lone wolf of tennis / Dick Schaap

"The Haig": rowdy rebel of the fairways / John Lardner

Racing's angriest young man / Jimmy Breslin

Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike

The fight to live / Al Stump

A rough time on the road / Stan Fischler

The longest silence / Thomas McGuane

The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved / Hunter S. Thompson

Centre court / John McPhee

Butkus / Arthur Kretchmer

Gone for good / Roger Angell

There was only one Casey / Wells Twombley

Pain ; No más / Tom Boswell

Medora goes to the game / George Plimpton

The rabbit hunter ; The boxer and the blonde / Frank Deford

The September song of Mr. October / David Remnick

A brother's keeper / Mike Lupica

Pure heart / William Nack

The making of a goon / Johnette Howard

The power and the glory / Paul Solotaroff

Tangled up in blue / Peter Richmond

The chosen one / Gary Smith

Into thin air / Jon Krakauer

Resurrecting the champ / J.R. Moehringer

The champ and the chump / Murray Kempton

Muhammad Ali then and now / Dick Schaap

Ego / Norman Mailer

Weird site for a fight / Jim Murray

"Lawdy, lawdy, he's great" / Mark Kram

My dinner with Ali / Davis Miller.