The Only Game in Town

For more than eighty years The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest wisest funniest and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench including such authors as Roger Angell John Updike Don DeLillo and John McPhee. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievementin 1930. John Cheever pens a story about a boys troubled relationship with his father and the national pastime. From Lance Armstrong 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 its not whether you win or loseits how you write about the game.