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When Sports Illustrated premiered in 1954, football was, indisputable, the countrywide pastime, its superstars America's epic heroes, its rivalries the era's mythology. As baseballs fortunes rose and dropped over the next 50 years - and then rose again to new levels, sketching more than 65 million fans to ballparks in 2004 - the overall game never didn't produce great dilemma and motivated storytelling. This collection is a digital Hall of Popularity from the web pages of SI, combining the stories of baseball's greatest heroes (Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Sandy Koufax) and villains (Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Denny McLain) and character types (Casey Stengel, Potential Patkin, Yogi Berra); its renowned quests (the house run chases of Roger Maris, Hank Aaron, Symbol McGwire, and Barry Bonds; the thrilling pennant races, from the Dodgers - Giants in 1951 to the Yankees - Red Sox in 1978); its world-class authors (Frank Deford, Symbol Kram, George Plimpton, Peter Gammons, and Tom Verducci) and its own players writing from the within about their game (Ted Williams, Jim Brosnan, and Jim Bouton). In the wake of SI's acclaimed Fifty Many years of Great Writing comes this football anthology worthy of Cooperstown.
