TY - BOOK AU - Thompson,Wright AU - Wickersham,Seth AU - Jones,Chris AU - Anderson,Joel AU - Collins,Jeremy AU - Merrill,Elizabeth AU - O'Sullivan,Dan AU - Bass,Rick AU - Ballard,Chris AU - Tomlinson,Howard M. AU - Van Natta,Don TI - The best American sports writing 2015 T2 - The best American series SN - 9780544340053 AV - PN 4784 .S6 B48 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Sports literature KW - United States KW - Sports KW - Sports journalism KW - fast N1 - "A Mariner original."; Foreword / by Glenn Stout -- Introduction / by Wright Thompson -- Awakening the giant / Seth Wickersham -- One thousand two hundred and fifty-eight pounds of sons / Chris Jones -- The two Michael Sams / Joel Anderson -- Thirteen ways of looking at Greg Maddux / Jeremy Collins -- Being Tommy Morrison's son / Elizabeth Merrill -- Money in the bank / Dan O'Sullivan -- The rage of the squat king / Rick Bass -- Haverford hoops / Chris Ballard -- Precious memories / Tommy Tomlinson -- Jerry Football / Don Van Natta Jr. -- Broke and broken / Tim Graham -- Sins of the preacher / Greg Hanlon -- Run and gun / Flinder Boyd -- Those Kansas City blues: a family history / Katie Baker -- The sea of crises / Brian Phillips -- In deep / Burkhard Bilger -- Who wants to shoot an elephant? / Wells Tower -- Breaking the waves / Ariel Levy -- The year of the pigskin / Christopher Beam -- No one walks off the island / Scott Eden -- Peyton Manning leaves crushing Super Bowl loss with reputation intact / Dan Wetzel ER -